Butbut Kalinga is an Austronesian language spoken in Kalinga Province of Northern Luzon in the Philippines. It is part of the Central Cordilleran subgroup of Austronesian languages. Its Ethnologue code is [KYB] (Gordon 2005). The speakers themselves call the language 'Whinuthut'. The earliest linguistic effort done on the Butbut language were on initial phonology and morphophonemics by Tom Yoakum of the new Tribes Mission (ms.).
The transcriptions in the attached article, Butbut Phonemes (downloadable), is based on the speech of Merlyn Goyya, a 21-year-old lady who has received formal education through 3rd year college. Her speech is representative of a variety of the Butbut language spoken by two of the villages of Butbut in Butbut Proper and Buscalan. The popular Aesop fable, The North Wind and Sun, used here to illustrate the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) of the Butbut Language, was also translated by Merlyn Goyya.
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