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The Ivatan (Ibatan) language also known as Chirin nu Ibatan (language of the Ivatan people) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Batanes Islands. Despite the islands’ closer proximity to Taiwan than Luzon it is not one of the Formosan languages. Ivatan is one of the Batanic languages which are perhaps a primary branch of the Malayo-Polynesian family of Austronesian languages.The language of Babuyan Island is a dialect.

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