Iraya language

Iraya
Native to	Philippines
Region	MIMAROPA
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Mindoro Iraya
Language codes
ISO 639-3	iry
Glottolog	iray1237[2]

The Iraya language is a language spoken by Mangyans in the province of Mindoro in the Philippines.

Locations

Ethnologue reports that Iraya is spoken in the following municipalities of northern Mindoro island.

• Mindoro Occidental Province: Paluan, Abra de Ilog, northern Mamburao, and Santa Cruz municipalities
• Mindoro Oriental Province: Puerto Galera and San Teodoro municipalities

References

1. Iraya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Iraya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Colin E. Tweddell. 1958. The Iraya (Mangyan) Language of Mindoro, Philippines: Phonology and Morphology. University of Washington. Ann Arbor: UMI. (Doctoral dissertation).
• Colin E. Tweddell and Thomas E. Tweddell and Hazel A. Page. 1974. "Iraya Mangyan Phonology and Philippine Orthography." Anthropological Linguistics 16. 368-392.