Romblomanon language

Romblomanon
Native to	Philippines
Region	Romblon province (entire Romblon and Sibuyan islands; some parts of Tablas except Banton, Corcuera, Maestro de Ocampo and Carabao)
Native speakers	94,000 (2011)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Visayan Central Visayan Romblomanon; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rol
Glottolog	romb1245[2]
	Area where Romblomanon is spoken

Romblomanon is an Austronesian regional language spoken, along with Asi and Onhan, in the province of Romblon in the Philippines. The language is also called Ini, Tiyad Ini, Basi, Niromblon, and Sibuyanon. It is a part of the Visayan language family and is closely related to other Philippine languages.

Specifically, it is spoken in the following islands on Romblon:

Romblon: the sole municipality of Romblon.
Sibuyan: all its municipalities, Cajidiocan, Magdiwang, and San Fernando.
Tablas: the municipality of San Agustin.
Oriental Mindoro: migrant Romblomanon speakers from Carmen in Tablas brought the language particularly to the municipality of Bansud and also migrant Romblomanon speakers from Tablas, Romblon and Sibuyan islands to the following municipalities of Mansalay, Bulalacao and parts of Bongabong and Roxas respectively.

Romblomanon is also considered as a Far Variant of Bisakol due to its proximity with the Islands of Panay & Masbate.

Sounds

	Absolutive	Ergative/Oblique	Locative	Existential
Nearest to speaker (this, here)	iní	tiyadní	dirí	(y)ári
Near to addressee or closely removed from speaker and addressee (that, there)	inâ	tiyadnâ	dirâ	(y)ára'
Remote (yon, yonder)	adtó	tiyadtó	didtó	(y)á(d)to

In addition to this, there are two verbal deictics, karí, meaning come to speaker, and kadto, meaning to go yonder.

Romblomanon	English	Example
Ano	What	Ano imo pangayan? "What is your name?"
San-o	When	San-o ka makadto sa Romblon? "When are you going to Romblon?"
Diin	Where	Diin ka pa-kadto? "Where are you going"
Sin-o	Who	Sin-o ang imo ka-ibahan? "Who is your companion?"
Kamusta	How	Kamusta ka? "How are you?"
Pa-unó	How (a derivative of ano)	Pa-unó ka maka halin? "How can you go?"
Pila	How much / How many	Pila ini? "How much is this?" / Pila ka tawo ang yara? "How many people are there?"

(See Talk page.)

↑ Romblomanon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Romblomanon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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