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Kankanaey language
Summary
Kankanaey (also spelled Kankana-ey) is a South-Central Cordilleran language under the Austronesian family spoken on the island of Luzon in the Philippines primarily by the Kankanaey people. Alternate names for the language include Central Kankanaey, Kankanai, and Kankanay. It is widely used by Cordillerans, alongside Ilocano, specifically people from Mountain Province and people from the northern part of the Benguet Province. Kankanaey has a slight mutual intelligibility with the Ilocano language.
Ethnologue lists Mankayan-Buguias, Kapangan, Bakun-Kibungan, and Guinzadan as dialects of Kankanaey. Northern Kankanaey is listed as a separate language.
Kankanaey is spoken in northern Benguet, southwestern Mountain Province, southeastern Ilocos Sur, northeastern La Union, and southwestern Ifugao. Northern Kankanaey is spoken in western Mountain Province, southeastern Ilocos Sur, and southern Abra.
Stops can be heard as unreleased, when in syllable-final position.
Allophones of /i, a/ are heard as [ɪ, ʌ].
Allophones of /o/ can be heard as [ʊ], [u].
This language should not be confused with a related, but different, language in the Sagada area called Kankanay. Of particular phonological interest is the very common occurrence of what is called the "barred i" in IPA. It is the unrounded, high mid vowel on the IPA chart. The letter /e/ in Kankanaey is to be pronounced as this sound, and not as the e in words like bet or wet. This is also one of the vowels in a few other Northern Luzon languages like Iloko and Pangasinan. The [e] sound is found in loanwords from other Philippine languages, mostly Ilocano and some Tagalog, including Spanish loanwords from those languages.
Some words with this sound are as follows:
emmey – 'to go'
entako – 'let's go' (a contracted form of emmey tako)
ed – a preposition showing location or time marker (e.g. ed Baguio 'in Baguio', ed nabbaon 'in the long-ago times')
ippe-ey – 'to put'
eng-gay – 'only, finish'
Kankanaey content roots divide the Kankanaey lexicon into different categories to define their usage and word type.
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