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Malaweg language

Malaweg (Malaueg) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malaweg people in the northern part of the Philippines. Ethnologue lists it as a dialect of the Itawis language. Malaweg is mostly spoken in the Northern Cordillera Mountain Range region and some in the Province of Cagayan, with the majority in the town of Rizal. Ninety-eight percent of the people living in Rizal are Malaweg-speaking, and the town is known as "The Premier Town of the Malaweg".

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Malaweg
Native toPhilippines
RegionLuzon
Native speakers
(14,500 cited 1990 census)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmala1534

Malaweg (Malaueg) is an Austronesian language2 spoken by the Malaweg people in the northern part of the Philippines. Ethnologue lists it as a dialect of the Itawis language.3 Malaweg is mostly spoken in the Northern Cordillera Mountain Range region and some in the Province of Cagayan, with the majority in the town of Rizal. Ninety-eight percent of the people living in Rizal are Malaweg-speaking, and the town is known as "The Premier Town of the Malaweg".

Origin

From Fr. Jose Bugarin's Ibanag Dictionary "Ueg [modern: uweg], river estuary. Pl. ueueg [uweweg] = Malaueg: a town in this province, in the district of Itaves (Itawis, now Chico River)"

The Malaueg Church in Rizal, Cagayan source ↗
References

References

  1. Itawit at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Malaweg". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
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