Editing Ivatan language (section)

{{Short description|Batanic language of the Ivatan people of the Philippines}}
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{{Infobox language
|name=Ivatan
|altname=Ibatan
|nativename={{lang|mul|Chirin nu Ibatan}}
|states=[[Philippines]]
|region=[[Batanes|Batanes Islands]]
|ethnicity=[[Ivatan people|Ivatan]]
|speakers={{sigfig|32,790|2}}<!-- excluding 3,450 Itbayatan -->
|date=1996–2007
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=[[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]]
|fam3=[[Philippine languages|Philippine]]
|fam4=[[Batanic languages|Batanic]]
|dia1=Ivasay
|dia2=Isamurung
|dia3=Babuyan
| minority =[[Regional language]] in the [[Philippines]]
|agency=[[Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino]]
|lc1=ivv|ld1=Ivatan
|lc2=ivb|ld2=Ibatan (Babuyan)
|glotto=ivat1242
|glottoname=Ivatan
|glottorefname=Itbayat
|glotto2=ibat1238
|glottoname2=Ibatan
|map=The Batanic languages.png
|mapcaption=The location of the Ivatan language within the Batanic languages
}}

The '''Ivatan''' language, also known as '''Chirin nu Ivatan''' ("language of the [[Ivatan people]]"), is an [[Austronesian language]] spoken in the [[Batanes]] Islands of the [[Philippines]].

Although the islands are closer to [[Taiwan]] than to Luzon, it is not one of the [[Formosan languages]]. Ivatan is one of the [[Batanic languages]], which are perhaps a primary branch of the [[Malayo-Polynesian]] family of [[Austronesian languages]].

The language of [[Babuyan Island]] (Ibatan) is sometimes classified as a dialect of the Ivatan language. Most of the Babuyan population moved to [[Batan Island]] and to Luzon mainland during the Spanish colonial period. The island became repopulated at the end of the 19th century with families from Batan, most of them speakers of one of the Ivatan dialects.<ref name="Ross">{{Cite journal |last=Ross |first=Malcolm |date=2005 |title=The Batanic Languages in Relation to the Early History of the Malayo-Polynesian Subgroup of Austronesian |url=https://mocfile.moc.gov.tw/files/201807/1.001-024.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Journal of Austronesian Studies |volume=1 |issue=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322042836/http://chl.anu.edu.au/linguistics/projects/mdr/Batanic.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-22 |access-date=2012-10-15}}</ref>

Ivatan speakers are found outside their homeland, many of them settled in mainland Luzon particularly in nearby [[Cagayan Valley]], [[Ilocos Region|Ilocandia]], [[Cordillera Administrative Region]], [[Central Luzon]], [[Metro Manila]], [[Calabarzon]], [[Mindoro]] and [[Palawan]] and also settled as far as [[Mindanao]]. In Mindanao, a significant Ivatan-speaking minority exist mainly in [[Bukidnon]], [[Lanao (province)|Lanao]] and [[Cotabato]] where they settled since the 1950s in search of economic opportunities settled down in government homesteads in these areas. Nowadays, however, their language has becoming endangered among Ivatan settlers' descendants especially newer generations born in Mindanao, due to being accustomed into a society of Cebuano-speaking majority. Like elsewhere, intermarriage between Ivatans and Mindanaoans of various ethnicities are not uncommon. Most of these Ivatans in Mindanao today speak the majority language of [[Cebuano language|Cebuano]], [[Hiligaynon language|Hiligaynon]], [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] and other Mindanao indigenous languages more than their ancestors' native language in varying fluency or none at all.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372483339 |access-date=11 March 2024 |title=Islandness in the Province: The Language of a Migrated Ivatan |first=Marbeth |last=Aringay |date=2023 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.11798.32320}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ivatan People of the Philippines: History, Customs, Culture and Traditions [Batanes Islands] |url=https://www.yodisphere.com/2022/09/Ivatan-Batanes-History-Culture-Traditions.html |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=yodisphere.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ-10-01-1972/hooker%20cohesion%20in%20ivatan.pdf |access-date=11 March 2024 |title=Cohesion in Ivatan |first=Betty |last=Hooker |journal=Asian Studies |date=1972 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=33–43}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ivatan Language of the Batanes Islands |url=https://iloko.tripod.com/Ivatan.htm |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=iloko.tripod.com}}</ref>