Pangasin language
| Pangasinian | ||
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Spoken in |
Philippines ( Ilocos and Central Luzon ) | |
| speaker | 1.5 million; (9th-Most Spoken Languages in the Philippines) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Austronesian
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| Official status | ||
| Recognized minority / regional language in |
 Philippines ( regional language )
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
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The Pangasinian language ( Spanish Idioma pangasinense , own name Pangasinian: Salitan Pangasinán ) is one of the twelve main languages in the Philippines .
It was previously written with the Baybayin script, which was retained in the Spanish colonial era . During the American colonial era, the Baybayin script was replaced by the Latin script .
The Pangasinian language is spoken by more than one and a half million Pangasinians in Pangasinan Province, the indigenous people who speak this language as their mother tongue. It is also spoken in other Panamanian communities in the Philippines and by Panamanian immigrants in Spain and the United States . Pangasinian is the main language in the province of Pangasinan, which is located in the west-central area of the island of Luzon along the Lingayen Gulf and is populated by Pangasinensen. It is the official regional language in the province of Pangasinan, which has a total population of 2,434,086 (as of: 2000) and where the Pangasinian language is being displaced more and more by Tagalog , the national language Filipino and especially by English.
Web links
- Ethnologue report for Pangasin
- Pangasinian-Spanish dictionary , by Lorenzo Fernandez Cosgata, published 1865 .