Babuyan Claro Toponyms
Abstract
Ibatan is a language mainly spoken by about 2,500 to 3,000 people on the island of Babuyan Claro, Cagayan (Gallego, 2020, p. 89). Genetically, Ibatan belongs to the Batanic subgroup of Philippine languages, along with Ivatan, Itbayat, and Tao (Moriguchi, 1983; Tsuchida et al., 1987, 1989). Administratively, the island of Babuyan Claro belongs to the municipality of Calayan in the province of Cagayan, and so, the people are also proficient in Ilokano, the regional lingua franca of northern Luzon.
Published
2023-11-15
How to Cite
GALLEGO, Maria Kristina S.; ROSALES, Romeo; ELVINIA, Edgar.
Babuyan Claro Toponyms.
The Archive, [S.l.], v. 3, n. 1–2, p. 175–215, nov. 2023.
ISSN 2672-295X. Available at: <https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/archive/article/view/9336>. Date accessed: 04 aug. 2025.
Section
Linguistic Data Sets
