Bontoc language

Dialects

• Central Bontok: spoken in Bontoc municipality, Mountain Province. 19,600 speakers.
• Eastern Bontok: spoken in Barlig municipality, eastern Mountain Province. 6,170 speakers.
• Northern Bontok: spoken in Sadanga municipality, northern Mountain Province. There are also some speakers in southern Kalinga Province. 9,700 speakers.
• Southern Bontok: spoken to the south of Bontoc municipality in Talubin, Bayyo, and Can-eo towns. 2,760 speakers.
• Southwestern Bontok: spoken in Bontoc municipality, Mountain Province. 2,470 speakers.

  Phonology

• The archiphoneme has,, and as its allophones. The allophone occurs word-initially, adjacent to, as the second member of a consonant cluster consisting of a coronal consonant and, and as the second member of any consonant cluster preceded by. occurs in free variation with word-initially, but otherwise occurs in complementary distribution with it. occurs in free variation with and word-initially, and with elsewhere.
• The plosives,,, and have, respectively, ,,, and as their syllable-initial allophones.
• The voiced stop also has and as its allophones. Both of these allophones occur as the first member of a geminate cluster. They are in free variation.
• The approximant has one allophone:. occurs after.

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