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Mariveleño language

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Native to
  
Philippines

Native speakers
  
1,000 (2011)

Glottolog
  
bata1297

Region
  
Mariveles

ISO 639-3
  
ayt

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Luzon Sambalic Mariveleño

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.

Reid (1994) reports the following Magbikin locations.

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

    • Himes (2012) also collected Magbukun data from Biaan, Mariveles, Bataan.

    References

    Mariveleño language Wikipedia
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