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Bugkalot language

Bugkalot is a language of the indigenous Bugkalot people of northern Luzon, Philippines.

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Bugkalot
RegionEastern Nueva Vizcaya, Western Quirino, east Nueva Ecija, northwest Aurora, Philippines
EthnicityBugkalot
Native speakers
6,000 (2010 census)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3ilk
Glottologilon1239
Area where Bugkalot is spoken1

Bugkalot (also Ilongot) is a language2 of the indigenous Bugkalot people of northern Luzon, Philippines.

Distribution

Ethnologue lists the following provinces in which Ilongot is spoken.

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects.

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

Alternate names include Bugkalut, Bukalot, and Lingotes.

References

References

  1. Bugkalot at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Ilongot". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.