| Isnag | |
| Also Known As: | Isneg |
| States: | Philippines |
| Region: | most parts of Apayao province, northern parts of Abra, Luzon |
| Speakers: | 30,000–40,000 |
| Date: | 1994 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Philippine |
| Fam4: | Northern Luzon |
| Fam5: | Cagayan Valley |
| Lc1: | isd |
| Ld1: | Isnag |
| Lc2: | tiu |
| Ld2: | Adasen Itneg |
| Lingua: | 31-CCA-a incl. inner units 31-CCA-aa...-ae |
| Notice: | IPA |
| Map: | Isnag_language_map.png |
| Mapcaption: | Area where Isnag (including Adasen Isneg) is spoken according to Ethnologue |
| Glotto: | isna1241 |
| Glottoname: | Isnag |
| Glotto2: | adas1235 |
| Glottoname2: | Adasen |
| Elp: | 2827 |
| Elpname: | Adasen Itneg |
Isnag (also called Isneg) is a language spoken by around 40,000 Isnag people of Apayao Province in the Cordillera Administrative Region in the northern Philippines. Around 85% of Isnag are capable of reading the Isnag language. Many Isnag speakers also speak Ilocano.
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Isnag.
Alternate names for Isnag include Apayao, Dibagat-Kabugao-Isneg, Isneg, and Maragat (Ethnologue).
Isnag is spoken in the northern two thirds of Apayao Province, Cagayan Province (Claveria and Santa Praxedes municipalities), Abra, and Ilocos Norte Province, and scattered areas along the Apayao western border (Ethnologue).
The closely related Adasen (Addasen, Addasen Tinguian, Itneg Adasen) language, which consists of western and eastern dialects, is spoken in northeastern Abra and into western Apayao Province. There are 4,000 speakers (Ethnologue).
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Plosive/ Affricate | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Tap | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
Isnag is one of the Philippine languages that do not exhibit pronounced as /[ɾ]/-pronounced as /[d]/ allophony.
The Proto-Malayo-Polynesian schwa ə has merged to /a/ such as > ('roof') similar to Kapampangan, in Tagalog and in Visayan.[1]