Austronesian language spoken by the Ilocano people of the Philippines
Not to be confused with Alekano language.
Ilocano
Ilokano
Iloko, Iluko, Iloco, Pagsasao nga Ilokano, Samtoy, Sao mi ditoy
Native to
Philippines
Region
Northern Luzon, many parts of Central Luzon and a few parts of the Soccsksargen region in Mindanao
Ethnicity
Ilocano
Native speakers
6,370,000 (2005)[1] 2 million L2 speakers (2000)[2] Third most spoken native language in the Philippines[3]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine
Northern Luzon
Ilocano
Writing system
Latin (Ilocano alphabet), Ilokano Braille Historically Kur-itan
Official status
Official language in
La Union[4]
Recognised minority language in
Philippines
Regulated by
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-2
ilo
ISO 639-3
ilo
Glottolog
ilok1237
Linguasphere
31-CBA-a
Area where Ilokano is spoken according to Ethnologue[5] Striped areas are Itneg-Ilokano bilingual communities in Abra
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An Ilocano speaker, recorded in the United States.
Ilocano (also Ilokano; /iːloʊˈkɑːnoʊ/;[6] Ilocano: Pagsasao nga Ilokano) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines, primarily by Ilocano people and as a lingua franca by the Igorot people and also by the native settlers of Cagayan Valley. It is the third most-spoken native language in the country.
As an Austronesian language, it is related to Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Tetum, Chamorro, Fijian, Māori, Hawaiian, Samoan, Tahitian, Paiwan, and Malagasy. It is closely related to some of the other Austronesian languages of Northern Luzon, and has slight mutual intelligibility with the Balangao language and the eastern dialects of the Bontoc language.[dubious – discuss][7]
The Ilokano people had their indigenous writing system and script known as kur-itan. There have been proposals to revive the kur-itan script by teaching it in Ilokano-majority public and private schools in Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur.[8]
^"Ilocano | Ethnologue Free".
^Cite error: The named reference Rubino 2000 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Philippine Census, 2000. Table 11. Household Population by Ethnicity, Sex and Region: 2000
^Elias, Jun (19 September 2012). "Iloko La Union's official language". Philippine Star. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
^Ethnologue. "Language Map of Northern Philippines". ethnologue.com. Ethnologue. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
^Bauer, Laurie (2007). The Linguistics Student's Handbook. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
^Lewis (2013). Ethnologue Languages of the World. Retrieved from:http://www.ethnologue.com/language/ebk
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