Batanic languages

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Batanic Bashiic, Ivatanic
Geographic distribution:	Batanes and Orchid Island
Genetic classification:	Austronesian  Malayo-Polynesian   Philippine    Northern Philippine     Batanic
Subdivisions:	—

The Batanic languages (sometimes called "Bashiic" or "Ivatanic") are a dialect cluster which form a group of the Philippine branch of the Austronesian language family. They are spoken on Babuyan Island, just north of Luzon; three of the Batanes Islands, between the Philippines and Taiwan; and on Orchid Island off southern Taiwan.

The varieties in the Philippines are called Ivatan (also spelled Ibatan), or are named Babuyan, Batan, or Itbayat after their islands, while the variety of Taiwan is called Yami or Tao. However, linguistically Yami is a variety of Ivatan. A 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database^[1] determined the relationships between the varieties to be as follows:

Batanic	Itbayaten Itbayat Babuyan Ivasay & Isamorong Yami Ilmorod Iraralay

[edit] References

• Li, Paul Jen-kuei (2001). The Dispersal of the Formosan Aborigines in Taiwan. Language and Linguistics 2.1:271-278.
• Ross, Malcom (2005). The Batanic languages in relation to the early history of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of Austronesian. Journal of Austronesian Studies 1/2:1-24.