| Central Bontok | |
| Also Known As: | Central Bontoc |
| States: | Philippines |
| Region: | Cordillera Administrative Region |
| Date: | 2007 census |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Nativename: | Bontoc, Bontoc Igorot, Kali |
| Iso3: | lbk |
| Glotto: | cent2292 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam1: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam2: | Northern Luzon |
| Fam3: | Meso-Cordilleran |
| Fam4: | South-Central Cordilleran |
| Fam5: | Central Cordilleran |
| Fam6: | North-Central Cordilleran |
| Fam7: | Nuclear Cordilleran |
| Fam8: | Bontok-Kankanay |
| Fam9: | Bontok |
Central Bontok (or Kali) is a language of the Bontoc group from the Philippines. The 2007 census claimed there were 19,600 speakers.
Ethnologue reports the following locations for Central Bontok:
Cordillera Administrative Region
Mountain Province: Bontoc municipality, Bontoc ili, Caluttit, Dalican, Guina-ang, Ma-init, Maligcong, Samoki, and Tocucan villages.
Ethnologue reports 5 dialects for Central Bontok: Khinina-ang, Finontok, Sinamoki, Jinallik, Minaligkhong and Tinokukan.
Ethnologue reports that the language is similar to other Bontoc languages, These languages are: North Bontok, Southwest Bontok, South Bontok, and East Bontok.
The Guinaang dialect of Central Bontok has the following inventory of consonant phonemes:[1]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||