Northern Philippine languages
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The Northern Philippine languages are a proposed group of the Philippine languages. They are a larger language group spoken in north central Luzon, and the small islands between Luzon and Formosa, including Ilokano, Pangasinan, Ibanag, Kapampangan, and the Yami language of Taiwan.
distributionLuzon
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Philippine
- Northern Philippine
- Philippine
| Northern Philippine | |
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| Geographic distribution | Luzon |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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The Northern Philippine languages are a long-established group which has often been taken to be more a geographic convenience than linguistic reality. However, a 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database[1] fully supported the unity of the languages as a family. It also provided a low level of support (at 60% confidence) that the Batanic branch is closest to Northern Luzon. The Northern Mindoro branch was not included in the analysis.
Classification
- Batanic languages (4 languages between Luzon and Formosa)
- Northern Luzon languages (41 languages)
- Ilokano
- Northern Cordilleran languages (15 languages)
- Meso-Cordilleran languages (25 languages)
- Central Luzon languages (5 languages)
- Kapampangan (spoken in Pampanga)
- Sambalic languages (spoken in Zambales)
- Sinauna
- Northern Mindoro languages (or North Mangyan; 3 languages)