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by Lawrence A. Reid, p 21-26            
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PHONOLOGY is based upon the dialect of about 1,500 people living
in Guinaang, in the sub-province of Bontoc, Mountain Province,
Philippines. This dialect is part of the Central Bontoc language
which is spoken in the majority of the barrios of the Bontoc
municipality. Each barrio has a vocabulary containing words
peculiar to its own area, and distinctive intonational and sub-
phonemic changes. Yet despite this, mutual intelligibility is
high, and the phonemes set forth in this paper are valid for the
whole area.  Although Guinaang shows less cultural change than
the surrounding barrios, its central position and the high
degree of monolingualism present have provided a good basis for
the study of the dialect. Materials upon which this statement is
based were gathered