Mariveleño language

Mariveleño (also known as Magbikin, Bataan Ayta, or Magbukun Ayta) is a Sambalic language. It has around 500 speakers (Wurm 2000) and is spoken within an Aeta community in Mariveles in the Philippines.

Geographic distribution

Reid (1994) reports the following Magbikin locations.

• Kanáwon, Morong, Bataan
• Bayanbayanan, Magbikin, Mariveles, Bataan

Himes (2012: 491) also collected Magbukun data from the two locations of:

• Biaan, Mariveles, Bataan
• Canawan, Morong, Bataan

Cabanding (2014), citing Neil (2012), reports the following Magbukon locations in Bataan Province.

• Dangcol, Balanga, Bataan
• Kinaragan, Limay, Bataan
• Kanawan, Morong, Bataan
• Pita, Bayan-bayanan in Orion, Bataan
• Pag-asa, Orani, Bataan
• Ulingan, Matanglaw, and Magduhat (all in Bagac, Bataan)
• Sitio Luoban in Samal, Bataan
• Bangkal in Abucay, Bataan

See also

• Languages of the Philippines

References

• Cabanding, Monica. 2014. The Deictic Demonstratives of Ayta Magbukun. The Philippines ESL Journal, vol. 13.
• Neil, David R. 2012. An ethnographic study of the Magbukon literary arts among the Ayta of Bataan. Abucay, Bataan: Bataan Peninsula State University.
• Neil, David R. 2014. The Magbukon Literary Arts among the Aetas of Bataan, Philippines. IAMURE International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 11 No. 1 October 2014. (Online)

Further reading

• Chrétien, Douglas C. (1951). The dialect of the Sierra de Mariveles Negritos. (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 4.2.) Berkeley/Los Angeles: Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 109pp.
• Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bataan Ayta". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
• Reed, W. A. 1904. Negritos of Zambales. (Ethnological Survey Publications, 2(1).) Manila: Bureau of Public Printing. 100pp.
• Schadenberg, A. (1880). Ueber die Negritos in den Philippinen. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie XII. 133-172.
• Wimbish, John. (1986). The languages of the Zambales mountains: A Philippine lexicostatistic study. In University of North Dakota Session, 133-142. Grand Forks, North Dakota: Summer Institute of Linguistics.