Butuanon language

Butuanon
Native to	Philippines
Ethnicity	Butuanons
Native speakers	72,000 (2005 )
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine Bisayan Southern Bisayan Butuan–Tausug Butuanon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	btw
Glottolog	butu1244

Butuanon is an Austronesian regional language spoken by the Butuanon people in Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur, with some native speakers in Misamis Oriental and Surigao del Norte. It is a part of the Bisayan language family and is closely related to other Philippine languages. As of 2007, Butuanon is believed to be spoken by fewer than 500 youngsters in Butuan itself.

Butuanon is very closely related to the Tausug language of distant Sulu and the Surigaonon language of neighboring provinces Surigao del Sur and Surigao del Norte.

Orthography

• a – [a]
• b – [b]
• d – [d]
• g – [g]
• h – [h]
• i – [i]
• k – [k]
• l – [l]
• m – [m]
• n – [n]
• ng – [ŋ]
• ny – [ɲ]
• o – [o]
• p – [p]
• r – [r]
• s – [s]
• t – [t]
• u – [u]
• w – [w]
• y – [j]

Long vowels are written as double letters (e.g. aa, ii, etc.)

Further reading

• Kobari, Yoshihiro (2009). The Current Status of the Butuanon Language and Its Speakers in Northern Mindanao: Findings on Ethnic Identity, Language Attitudes, Language Ability, Language Use, and Language Change (Ph.D. thesis). De La Salle University.
• Kobari, Yoshihiro (2016). "The Game of Naming: A Case of the Butuanon Language and its Speakers in the Philippines" (PDF). Language and Linguistics in Oceania. 8: 1–21.