Yogad language

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Yogad is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Echague and other nearby towns in Isabela province in northern Philippines. The 1990 census claimed there were around 16,000 speakers.[2]

Yogad
Native toPhilippines
RegionLuzon
Native speakers
(16,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3yog
Glottologyoga1237
Area where the Yogad language is spoken

Classification

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Anthropologist H. Otley Beyer describes Yogad as a variant of Gaddang language and the people as a sub-group of the Gaddang people in his 1917 catalogue of Philippines ethnic groups.[3] Glottolog presently groups it as a member of the Gaddangic group; in 2015, however, Ethnologue placed Yogad as a separate member of the Ibanagic language family. Godfrey Lambrecht, CICM, also distinguished separately the peoples who spoke the two languages.[4]

Alphabet

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The Yogad alphabet has 21 letters composed of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.[5]

Yogad Alphabet
Majuscule Letter A B K D E F G
Minuscule Letter a b k d e f g
IPA /a/ /b/ /k/ /d/ /ɛ/ /f/ /ɡ/
Majuscule Letter H I L M N NG O
Minuscule Letter h i l m n ng o
IPA /h/ /i/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /ŋ/ /o/
Majuscule Letter P R S T U W Y
Minuscule Letter p r s t u w y
IPA /p/ /ɾ/ /s/ /t/ /u/ /w/ /j/

References

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  1. ^ Yogad at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "About Yogad". Yogad Kan.https://www.yogadkan.com/about-yogad.html
  3. ^ Beyer, H. Otley (1917). Population of the Philippine Islands in 1916 (población de las islas Filipinas en 1916) (in English and Spanish). Manila: Philippine Education Co., Inc. p. 22.
  4. ^ Lambrecht, Godfrey (1959). "The Gadang of Isabela and Nueva Vizcaya: Survivals of a Primitive Animistic Religion". Philippine Studies. 7 (2): 194–218. JSTOR 42719440.
  5. ^ Yogad: First Primer. The Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1956.
  • Davis, Philip W.; Mesa, Angel D. (2000). A Dictionary of Yogad. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europa.