| Balangao | |
| Also Known As: | Balangaw, Balangao Bontoc |
| Region: | Luzon |
| State: | Philippines |
| Ethnicity: | Balangao people |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Philippine |
| Fam4: | Northern Luzon |
| Fam5: | Meso-Cordilleran |
| Fam6: | Central Cordilleran |
| Fam7: | Nuclear Cordilleran |
| Iso3: | blw |
| Glotto: | bala1310 |
| Glottorefname: | Balangao |
| Map: | Balangao_language_map.png |
| Mapcaption: | Area where Balangao is spoken according to Ethnologue |
Balangao or Balangaw (also called Balangao Bontoc) is an Austronesian language spoken in northern Luzon, Philippines. It is spoken in the central area of Mountain Province, and into Tanudan municipality of Kalinga Province.
Balangao has the following phoneme inventory:[1]
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |
The central vowels /a/ and /ɨ/ each have a lowered and a raised allophone, viz. pronounced as /link/~pronounced as /link/ for /a/, and pronounced as /link/~pronounced as /link/ for /ɨ/.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||