Ilongot language

Ilongot (also Bogkalot) is a language of the indigenous Bugkalot people of northern Luzon, Philippines.

Ilongot
RegionEastern Nueva Vizcaya and Western Quirino, Philippines
EthnicityIlongot people
Native speakers
(51,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ilk
Glottologilon1239[2]
Area where Ilongot is spoken[1]

Distribution

Ethnologue lists the following provinces in which Ilongot is spoken.

  • Most of Quirino Province north of the Cagayan River
  • Eastern Nueva Vizcaya Province
  • Southern Isabela Province (upper reaches of the Cagayan River)

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects.

  • Abaka (Abaca)
  • Egongot
  • Ibalao (Ibilao)
  • Italon
  • Iyongut

Alternate names include Bugkalut, Bukalot, and Lingotes.

References

  1. Ilongot at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ilongot". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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