Itbayat language

The Itbayat language, Itbayaten, also known generically as Ibatan, is an Austronesian language, in the Batanic group, spoken in the Batanes Islands.

Itbayat
Ibatan
Itbayaten
Native toPhilippines
RegionItbayat Island
EthnicityIvatan people
Yami people
Filipinos in Taiwan
Native speakers
3,500 (1996 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologitba1237[2]

References

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


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