Sambalic languages

Infobox Language family
name=Sambalic languages
region=Zambales, Bolinao, Anda, Olongapo
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Borneo-Philippines
fam4=Central Luzon
child1=Abellen
Ambala
Bolinao
Botolan
Mag-antsi
Mag-indi
Mariveleño
Tina

The Sambalic languages are part of the Central Luzon language family. The largest Sambalic languages are Tina, Bolinao, and Botolan, with approximately 70,000 (SIL 2000), 50,000 (Ethnologue 1990), and 32,867 (SIL 2000) speakers, respectively. The rest are smaller languages spoken almost exclusively within various Aeta communities. There are a total of around 168,067 speakers of Sambalic languages, spoken primarily in Zambales, Pangasinan, Olongapo, and Tarlac, but also in Bataan, Metro Manila, and Quezon, Palawan.

The Sambalic languages are most closely related to Kapampangan and to an archaic form of Tagalog still spoken in Tanay in the province of Rizal. This has been interpreted to mean that the Sambal originated from that area, later being displaced by migrating Tagalogs from Marinduque around 600 BC, pushing the original inhabitants northward to what is now the province of Zambales, [ [http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/ebook_subcont.php?subcont_Id=33 About Culture and Arts ] ] in turn, displacing the Aetas.

Table of speakers

Sambal (Spanish: "zambal") is the collective name for the three Sambalic languages spoken by the Sambal: Tina, Bolinao, and Botolan.

ample text: Philippine national proverb

Below are translations in Tina, Bolinao, and Botolan of the Philippine national proverb [ [http://iloko.tripod.com/philproverb.html National Philippine Proverb in Various Philippine Languages ] ] “He who does not acknowledge his beginnings will not reach his destination,” followed by the original in Filipino.
*Tina: “Hay kay tanda mamanomtom ha pinangibatan, kay immabot sa kakaon.”
*Bolinao: “Si [tawon] kai magtanda’ lumingap sa ibwatan [na] , kai ya mirate’ sa keen [na] .”
*Botolan: “Hay ahe nin nanlek ha pinag-ibatan, ay ahe makarateng ha lalakwen.”
*Filipino: “Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan.”

ee also

*Languages of the Philippines
*Sambal people

References

External links

* [http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/ical/papers/stone-The%20Sambalic%20Languages%20of%20Central%20Luzon.pdf The Sambalic Languages of Central Luzon] , paper by Roger Stone