It is a short description of the most salient points of the grammar of the language. This grammatical sketch of Masbatenyo language is another attempt to document the language. Wolfenden (2001) identified three major dialects of Masbatenyo: the western dialect centered around the town of Balud on the western coast which is close to Capiz, the southern dialect centered about the town of Cataingan in the southeastern part of Masbate and the northern dialect covering the whole northern half of Masbate and centered on Masbate City. It is most closely related to Capiznon (79 % lexical similarity) and Hiligaynon (76% lexical similarity), according to Ethnologue (Simons & Fennig, 2018). It is the statutory language of Masbate province, spoken by 724,000 speakers as a first language by around 474,000 speakers (2005 UNSD) and as a second language by 250,000 speakers (SIL 2002). The Minasbate language (msb), otherwise known as Masbatenyo (or Masbateńo), belongs to the Bisayan subgroup of Central Philippines, which is a member of the Western Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family (Simons & Fennig 2018). Ultimately, a chapter will also be dedicated to discuss the subgrouping of Manide along with other Philippine languages. The following chapters will discuss the morphosyntax clausal structures in Manide using ergative analysis and headedness principle. A chapter of this grammar sketch will discuss the phonemes of Manide, their phonotactic constraints, the morphophonemic changes that occur in the language, and proposals on how the sounds can be represented orthographically. The Manide language discussed in this research only focuses on the Manide that is spoken by people residing in Labo, Camarines Norte. This grammar sketch mainly focuses on basic Manide predicative sentences with preliminary discussions on compound and complex clauses, and other types of constructions including imperatives and interrogatives. To accomplish this, the following main objectives are set: (1) provide an inventory of sounds (2) describe the general word-formation processes and (3) describe the clausal structure using the concept of headedness while taking into account various morphosyntactic properties such as case markings and predicate properties. The main objective of this research is to describe the grammar of Manide. The Manide live primarily in the Tagalog-speaking central and western two-thirds of Camarines Norte province in southern Luzon. According to the 2005 population counts of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), this group approximately has 4,000 members, with their language being referred to as “Manide” as well. Manide is the name of an ethnolinguistic group settling in the province of Camarines Norte. The basic types of phrases and clauses in the language were explained and were given examples. In the fourth chapter the syntax of Isinay is discussed into phrasal and clausal levels. Detailed discussion on pluralization of nouns and formation of numerals can also be found in chapter three. The basic word classes which are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, linkers and conjunctions were discussed. The third chapter focused on the morphology of Isinay Dupax. The phoneme inventory of the language is presented along with its phonotactic constraints, syllable structures and morphophonemic changes. In the second chapter, the phonology of the language is discussed. The first chapter contains the general information about Isinay language such as its language subgroup, the location where it is spoken, its numbers of speakers and the related literature written before about the language. The research is divided into five chapters: (1) Introduction, (2) Phonology, (3) Morphology, (4) Syntax and (5) Conclusion. It is a synchronic description of the language. It presents the basic phonological, morphological and syntactic structures of the language based on both the elicited data (see Appendix A and B). This study is a basic grammar sketch that discusses the most important aspects of Isinay Dupax grammar. This paper is another attempt to document Isinay language, specifically the Isinay Dupax variety. There had been previous studies on Isinay language, however they are but a few in comparison to other Philippine languages. Among the three varieties, Isinay Dupax has the strongest language status with more than 16,000 speakers (Cruz, 2010). Isinay has three varieties: Isinay Aritao, Isinay Bambang and Isinay Dupax. It is spoken in three municipalities in Nueva Vizcaya. Isinay is a member of Central Cordilleran subgroup of languages.
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