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Pangasinan
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Austronesian language spoken in the province of Pangasinan by Pangasinense people
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ paŋɡasiˈnan ]
- Native to
- Philippines
- Region
- Ilocos Region (entirety of Pangasinan , southwestern La Union ), Central Luzon (northern Tarlac , northwestern Nueva Ecija , northern Zambales ), Cordilleras (southwestern Benguet ), Cagayan Valley (southwestern Nueva Vizcaya )
- Ethnicity
- Pangasinan
- Native speakers
- 1.8 million (2010) , 8th most spoken native language in the Philippines
- Language family
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Philippine Northern Luzon Meso-Cordilleran Southern Cordilleran West Southern Cordilleran Pangasinan
- Writing system
- Latin ( Pangasinan alphabet ), Historically written in: Kurítan
- Official language in
- Pangasinan
- Recognised minority language in
- Philippines , ( Regional language )
- Regulated by
- Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
- Iso 639 2
- pag
- Iso 639 3
- pag
- Glottolog
- pang1290
- Linguasphere
- 31-CGA-f
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1100000
- native label
- pangasinan
- Wikimedia language code
- pag
- P10369
- Mandelbrot set
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Article
Pangasinan (Pangasinense) is an Austronesian language, and one of the eight major languages of the Philippines. It is the primary and predominant language of the entire province of Pangasinan and northern Tarlac, on the northern part of Luzon's central plains geographic region, most of whom belong to the Pangasinan ethnic group. Pangasinan is also spoken in southwestern La Union, as well as in the municipalities of Benguet, Nueva Vizcaya, Nueva Ecija, and Zambales that border Pangasinan. A few Aeta groups and most Sambal in Central Luzon's northern part also understand and even speak Pangasinan as well.
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