Yogad language

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

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

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

Yogad Alphabet
Majuscule Letter ABKDEFG
Minuscule Letter abkdefg
IPA /a//b//k//d//ɛ//f//ɡ/
Majuscule Letter HILMNNGO
Minuscule Letter hilmnngo
IPA /h//i//l//m//n//ŋ//o/
Majuscule Letter PRSTUWY
Minuscule Letter prstuwy
IPA /p//ɾ//s//t//u//w//j/

References

  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.


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