Batanic languages

The Batanic languages (sometimes called ‘Bashiic’ or ‘Ivatanic’ or ‘Vasayic’) are four closely related languages which together form a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. Three of the languages (Ivatan, Babuyan and Itbayat) are spoken on Batan and three other small Batanes Islands, which are Northern Philippine islands located between Taiwan and Luzon. The fourth, Yami, is spoken on Orchid Island, near Taiwan.

References

• Li, Paul Jen-kuei (2001). The Dispersal of the Formosan Aborigines in Taiwan. Language and Linguistics 2.1:271-278.
• Ross, Malcom (2005). The Batanic languages in relation to the early history of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of Austronesian. Journal of Austronesian Studies 1/2:1-24.