Botolan | |
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Botolan Sambal | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | some parts of Zambales province, Luzon |
Native speakers | 33,000 (2000) [1] |
Official status | |
Regulated by | Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
sbl |
Glottolog |
boto1242 |
Area where Botolan Sambal is spoken according to Ethnologue | |
Botolan is a Sambalic language spoken by 32,867 ( SIL 2000) Sambal, primarily in the Zambal municipalities of Botolan and Cabangan in the Philippines. Language status is 5 (developing). [2]
The Ayta people of sitio Villar, Botolan, and sitio Kakilingan, Santa Fe, Cabangan also speak a Botolan dialect with some unique lexical items. [3]
Ethnologue reports Ayta Hambali (Hambali Botolan), Sambali Botolan as dialects of Sambal Botolan. Among themselves, Ayta Hambali reportedly use some words that are similar to Ayta, Mag-Anchi. [2]
Botolan has 20 phonemes: 16 consonants and four vowels. Syllable structure is relatively simple. Each syllable contains at least a consonant and a vowel.[ citation needed]
Botolan has four vowels. They are:
There are five main diphthongs: /aɪ/, /uɪ/, /aʊ/, /ij/, and /iʊ/.
Below is a chart of Botolan consonants. All the stops are unaspirated. The velar nasal occurs in all positions including at the beginning of a word.
Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasals | m | n | ɲ ⟨ny⟩ | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | ||
Plosives/ Affricates |
voiceless | p | t | tʃ ⟨ts, ty⟩ | k | ʔ - |
voiced | b | d | dʒ ⟨dy⟩ | g | ||
Fricatives | s | ʃ ⟨sy⟩ | h | |||
Laterals | l | lj ⟨ly⟩ | ||||
Flaps | r | |||||
Semivowels | w | j |
Note: Consonants /d/ and /ɾ/ can sometimes interchange as they were once allophones.
Stress is phonemic in Botolan. Word stress is very important; it differentiates homonyms, e.g. hikó ('I') and híko ('elbow').
Many words pronounced with /s/ and /ɡ/ in Tagalog have /h/ and /j/, respectively, in their cognates in Botolan. Compare hiko and bayo with the Tagalog siko and bago.
Tatay nawen ya anti ha katatag-ayan,
Hay ngalan mo ay igalang dayi nin kaganawan.
Andawaten nawen ya tampol kayna dayin mag-arí.
Mangyari dayi ya kalabayan mo bayri ha babon lotá
Bilang ombayro ha katatag-ayan.
Hapa-eg ay biyan mo kayin pamamangan ya
angka-ilanganen nawen.
Patawaren mo kayi ha kawkasalanan
nawen bilang pamatawad nawen ha nakapagkasalanan konnawen.
Agmo kayi biyan ma-irap ya pagsobok boy
ipakarayó mo kayi koni Satanas. [4]
Below is a translation in Botolan of the Philippine national proverb [5] "He who does not acknowledge his beginnings will not reach his destination," followed by the original in Tagalog.