| Itbayat | |
| Also Known As: | Ibatan |
| Nativename: | Itbayaten |
| States: | Philippines |
| Region: | Itbayat Island |
| Ethnicity: | Ivatan people Yami people |
| Date: | 1996 census |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Batanic |
| Fam4: | Yami–Itbayat |
| Glotto: | itba1237 |
| Glottorefname: | Itbayaten |
| Map: | The Batanic languages.png |
| Mapcaption: | Itbayat and the other Batanic languages |
The Itbayat language or Itbayaten (also known generically as Ibatan) is an Austronesian language, in the Batanic group, spoken on Itbayat Island in the Batanes Islands, Philippines.
pronounced as //a, ɜ, i, o//
Vowels are contrasted between long and short vowels, for example as seen in the words ('support') and ('a kind of yam').
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Trill | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
The following set of pronouns is found in the Itbayat language.[1]
| Nominative | Genitive | Locative | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| free | bound | free | bound | ||||
| 1st person | singular | ||||||
| dual | – | – | – | – | |||
| plural | inclusive | ||||||
| exclusive | |||||||
| 2nd person | singular | ||||||
| plural | |||||||
| 3rd person | singular | – | – | / | |||
| plural | |||||||