January 2017
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The paper is a study of the more salient and noteworthy features of the phonological system of the language of Ini / Romblomanon spoken primarily in the province of Romblon. The methods of acoustic phonetics were employed in tackling problems involving the said language's consonantal and vowel inventory and the exact characterization and articulation of these sounds, syllable structure and apparent peculiarities such as consonant-cluster codas and the appearance of an alveolar approximant [ɹ] in certain forms. Keywords: Romblomanon, Ini, acoustic phonetics, vowel space, phonemic inventory, morphophonemic processes