Central Cordilleran languages

The Central Cordilleran languages are a group of closely related languages within the Northern Luzon subgroup of the Austronesian language family. They are spoken in the interior highlands of Northern Luzon in the Cordillera Central mountain range.[1][2]

Central Cordilleran
Geographic
distribution		northern Luzon
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Glottologcent2296

Classification

Reid (1974) classifies the Central Cordilleran languages as follows:[1]

Reid (1991) has suggested that the Central Cordilleran languages are most closely related to the Southern Cordilleran languages,[3] which is supported by numerous exclusively shared innovations listed by Himes (2005).[2]

Reconstruction
Proto-Central Cordilleran
Reconstruction ofCentral Cordilleran languages
Reconstructed
ancestors

Proto-Central Cordilleran has been reconstructed by Reid (1974; 2006).[1][4]

Phonology
Vowels
Front Central Back
Close *i *ɨ *u
Open *a
Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop voiceless *p *t *k *ʔ
voiced *b *d *g
Fricative *s
Nasal *m *n *ŋ
Lateral *l
Approximant *w *y

Proto-Central Cordilleran can be reconstructed with phonemic stress.

Vocabulary

The comparison table (taken from Reid (1974)[1] illustrates the correspondences between the Central Cordilleran languages, including inherited vocabulary as well as Central Cordilleran innovations.

Comparison table
Words inherited from Proto-Austronesian (PAn)
Isinai Kalinga Ifugao PCC PAn Meaning
béoyboloybaluy*balɨy*balay'house'
páχoypágoypáguy*págɨy*pajay'rice'
Central Cordilleran innovations
Isinai Kalinga Ifugao PCC PAn Meaning
ʔílaʔílaʔíla*ʔíla(*kita)'see'
dalitdalitdalet*dalit(*tuNa)'eel'
kolaŋʔolaŋʔolaŋ*kɨlaŋ(*quləj)'worm'
waŋwaŋwaŋwaŋwaŋwaŋ*waŋwaŋ(*iluR)'river'

References
  1. Reid, Lawrence A. (1974). "The Central Cordilleran Subgroup of Philippine Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 13 (1/2): 511–560. JSTOR 3622752.
  2. Himes, Ronald S. 2005. The Meso-Cordilleran Group of Philippine Languages. In Hsiu-chuan Liao and Carl R. Galvez Rubino (eds.), Current Issues in Philippine Linguistics and Anthropology: Parangal kay Lawrence A. Reid, 81-92. Manila, Philippines: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines.
  3. Reid, Lawrence A. (1991). "The Alta languages of the Philippines". In Ray Harlow (ed.). VICAL 2, Western Austronesian and Contact Languages. Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Auckland: Linguistic Society of New Zealand. pp. 265–297.
  4. Reid, Lawrence A. (2006). "On reconstructing the morphosyntax of Proto-Northern Luzon, Philippines". Philippine Journal of Linguistics. 37: 1–64.
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