Hanunuo language

Hanunoo
	Hanunó'o
	ᜱᜨᜳᜨᜳᜢ
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mimaropa
Native speakers	13,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine South Mangyan Hanunoo; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Hanunuo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hnn
Glottolog	hanu1241

Hanunoo, or Hanunó'o (IPA: [hanunuʔɔ]), is a language spoken by Mangyans in the island of Mindoro, Philippines.

It is written in the Hanunoo script.

Distribution

Barbian (1977)[2] lists the following locations.

Barrio Tugtugin, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro
Naluak, Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro (on the upper Caguray River)
Bamban, Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro (also with Ratagnon and Bisayan residents)
Barrio Panaytayan, Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro (about 5 km from the highway in the mountains southwest of Mansalay)

Hanunoo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. English-Mangyan vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.

Hanunuo, Mangyan Heritage Center. (About the people.)
Conklin, Harold C. 1953. Hanunóo-English vocabulary. (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 9.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

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