Indi language

The Indi language or Mag-indi (or Mag-Indi Ayta) is a Sambalic language with around 5,000 speakers. It is spoken within Philippine Aeta communities in San Marcelino, Zambales, and in the Pampango municipalities of Floridablanca (including in Nabuklod) and Porac. There are also speakers in Lumibao and Maague-ague.

Indi
Ayta, Indi, Indi Ayta, Mag-Indi Sambal
Mag-indi
Native to	Philippines
Region	Floridablanca, Porac, San Marcelino
Ethnicity	30,000 (no date)
Native speakers	(5,000 cited 1998)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Luzon Sambalic Indi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	blx
Glottolog	magi1241

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Fricative			s
Lateral			l
Rhotic			ɾ
Approximant		w		j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Open		a

See also

• Languages of the Philippines

References

1. Indi language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
2. Indi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
3. Stone, Roger (2008). "The Sambalic Languages of Central Luzon" (PDF). Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures. 19: 158–183. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
4. Himes, Ronald S. (2012). "The Central Luzon Group of Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 51 (2): 490–537. doi:10.1353/ol.2012.0013. JSTOR 23321866. S2CID 143589926.
5. Stone, Roger (2017). Introduction to Ayta Mag-Indi Orthography.

Further reading

• Paggamit sa Apat a Pagsabi / The Use of Four Languages (PDF). Manila: Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1991. ISBN 971-18-0185-X. – sample phrases in Indi, Kapampangan, Tagalog and English.

External links

For a list of words relating to Indi language, see the Mag-Indi Ayta language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.