Editing Ivatan language (section)

==Phonology==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Vowels of Ivatan<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Cottle|first=Morris|title=The significant sounds of Ivatan|publisher=University of Sydney|year=1958}}</ref>
!
! [[Front vowel|Front]]
! [[Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan="2" | [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| {{IPA link|i}}
|
| {{IPA link|ɯ}}
| {{IPA link|u}}
|-
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| 
| 
|colspan="2"| {{IPA link|o}}<!--This sound is included in Ivatan, like in the words written below.-->
|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
|
| {{IPA link|a}}
| colspan="2" |
|}
/u/ can also be lowered to {{IPAblink|ʊ}}. Vowel [e] only occurs in loanwords from [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Ilocano language|Ilocano]], and [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Consonants of Ivatan<ref name=":0" />
|-
! colspan="2" |
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
| {{IPA link|ɲ}}
| {{IPA link|ŋ}}
|
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Plosive]]/<br>[[Affricate]]
! {{small|voiceless}}
| {{IPA link|p}}
| {{IPA link|t}}
| {{IPA link|tʃ}}
| {{IPA link|k}}
| rowspan="2" | {{IPA link|ʔ}}
|-
! {{small|voiced}}
| {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|d}}
| {{IPA link|dʒ}}
| {{IPA link|ɡ}}
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Fricative]]
| {{IPA link|v}}
| {{IPA link|s}}
|
| {{IPA link|ɣ}}
| {{IPA link|h}}
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Approximant]]
|
| {{IPA link|l}}
| {{IPA link|j}}
| {{IPA link|w}}
|
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Tap consonant|Tap]]
|
| {{IPA link|ɾ}}
|
|
|
|}

/h/ can also be heard as a velar fricative {{IPAblink|x}}. Ivatan is one of the Philippine languages that do not exhibit [{{IPA|ɾ}}]-[d] allophony.