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Ifugao language

 
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Ifugao
Spoken in Ifugao Province, Luzon, Philippines
Total speakers 43,000
Language family Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian
  Philippine
   Northern Luzon
    Central Cordilleran
     Nuclear Cordilleran
      Ifugao
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2 phi
ISO 639-3 ifb

Ifugao or Batad is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Ifugao Province of the northern Philippines, closely related to Bontok and Kankanai.[1] It is a dialect cluster, and its four main varieties—such as Tuwali—are sometimes considered separate languages.[2]

Ifugao is called Kalanguya which was also called to the tribe this language was a little bit the same Ibaloi.[clarification needed][3]

References

  1. ^ (Lebar, 1975: 78)
  2. ^ (Newell and Poligon, 1993)
  3. ^ by.{jadekalanguya@yahoo.com}pls add.ty.

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