Mariveleño language explained

Mariveleño
Also Known As:	Bataan Ayta, Magbukun Ayta
States:	Philippines
Region:	Mariveles
Speakers:	1,000
Date:	2011
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Philippine
Fam4:	Central Luzon
Fam5:	Sambalic
Iso3:	ayt
Glotto:	bata1297
Glottorefname:	Bataan Ayta
Ethnicity:	2,000 (2011)^[1]

Mariveleño (also known as Magbikin, Bataan Ayta, or Magbukun Ayta) is a Sambalic language. It has around 500 speakers (Wurm 2000) and is spoken within an Aeta community in Mariveles in the Philippines.

Geographic distribution

Reid (1994)^[2] reports the following Magbikin locations.

• Kanáwon, Morong, Bataan
• Bayanbayanan, Magbikin, Mariveles, Bataan

Himes (2012: 491)^[3] also collected Magbukun data from the two locations of:

• Biaan, Mariveles, Bataan
• Canawan, Morong, Bataan

Cabanding (2014), citing Neil (2012), reports the following Magbukon locations in Bataan Province.

• Dangcol, Balanga, Bataan
• Kinaragan, Limay, Bataan
• Kanawan, Morong, Bataan
• Pita, Bayan-bayanan in Orion, Bataan
• Pag-asa, Orani, Bataan
• Ulingan, Matanglaw, and Magduhat (all in Bagac, Bataan)
• Sitio Luoban in Samal, Bataan
• Bangkal in Abucay, Bataan

See also

• Languages of the Philippines

References

• Cabanding, Monica. 2014. The Deictic Demonstratives of Ayta Magbukun. The Philippines ESL Journal, vol. 13.
• Neil, David R. 2012. An ethnographic study of the Magbukon literary arts among the Ayta of Bataan. Abucay, Bataan: Bataan Peninsula State University.
• Neil, David R. 2014. The Magbukon Literary Arts among the Aetas of Bataan, Philippines. IAMURE International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 11 No. 1 October 2014. (Online)

Further reading

• Blust . Robert . Terror from the Sky: Unconventional Linguistic Clues to the Negrito Past . Human Biology . 2013 . 85 . 1–3 . 401–416 . 10.13110/humanbiology.85.1-3.0401 . 24297235 .
• Brosius . J. Peter . The Zambales Negritos: Swidden agriculture and environmental change . Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society . 1983 . 11 . 2/3 . 123–148 . 29791791 .
• Chrétien, Douglas C. (1951). The dialect of the Sierra de Mariveles Negritos. (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 4.2.) Berkeley/Los Angeles: Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 109pp.
• Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bataan Ayta". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
• Himes . Ronald S. . The Central Luzon Group of Languages . Oceanic Linguistics . 2012 . 51 . 2 . 490–537 . 10.1353/ol.2012.0013 . 23321866 . 143589926 .
• Reed, W. A. 1904. Negritos of Zambales. (Ethnological Survey Publications, 2(1).) Manila: Bureau of Public Printing. 100pp.
• Reid . Lawrence A. . Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages . Oceanic Linguistics . 1994 . 33 . 1 . 37–72 . 10.2307/3623000 . 3623000 . 10125/32986 . free .
• Who Are the Philippine Negritos? Evidence from Language . Human Biology . 2013 . 85 . 1–3 . 329–358 . 10.13110/humanbiology.85.1-3.0329 . Lawrence a. Reid . 24297232 .
• Anthropology and GIS: Temporal and Spatial Distribution of the Philippine Negrito Groups . Human Biology . 2013 . 85 . 1–3 . 209 . 10.13110/humanbiology.85.1-3.0209 . Sabino g. Padilla, Jr. . 24297227 .
• Schadenberg, A. (1880). Ueber die Negritos in den Philippinen. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie XII. 133-172.
• Wimbish, John. (1986). The languages of the Zambales mountains: A Philippine lexicostatistic study. In University of North Dakota Session, 133-142. Grand Forks, North Dakota: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ayta, Magbukun .
2. Reid . Lawrence A. . Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages . Oceanic Linguistics . 1994 . 33 . 1 . 37–72 . 10.2307/3623000 . 3623000 . 10125/32986 . free .
3. Himes . Ronald S. . The Central Luzon Group of Languages . Oceanic Linguistics . 2012 . 51 . 2 . 490–537 . 10.1353/ol.2012.0013 . 23321866 . 143589926 .