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About Ilocano Language



Countries
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Countries
Philippines 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Philippines 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Asia 0

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Regulated By
Commission on the Filipino Language 0

Interesting Facts
  • Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
  • Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
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Similar To
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Ilocano-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
32 14

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Ilokano Braille, Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available 0

Greetings
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Hello
Kablaaw 0

Thank You
Agyamanak 0

How Are You?
Kumusta? 0

Good Night
Naimbag a rabii 0

Good Evening
Naimbag a sardam 0

Good Afternoon
Naimbag a malem 0

Good Morning
Naimbag a bigat 0

Please
Not available 0

Sorry
Agpakawanak 0

Bye
Pakada 0

I Love You
Ayayatenka 0

Excuse Me
Maawan-dayawen 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Balangao 0

Where They Speak
Philippines 0

How Many People Speak
21,000.00 47

Dialect 2
Bontoc 0

Where They Speak
Philippines 0

How Many People Speak
41,000.00 39

Dialect 3
Not present 0

Where They Speak
Not present 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
2 2

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
9.10 million 56

Speaking Population
0.14 % 50

Native Speakers
9.10 million 47

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
ilokano 0

Alternative Names
Ilokano, Iloko 0

French Name
ilocano 0

German Name
Ilokano-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Ilocano people 0

History
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Origin
18th Century 0

Language Family
Austronesian Family 0

Subgroup
Not Available 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Modern Ilocano 0

Language Position
94 63

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
No data available 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
ilo 0

ISO 639 2/B
ilo 0

ISO 639 3
ilo 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
ilok1237 0

Linguasphere
31-CBA-a 0

Types of Language
0

Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available 0

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available 0

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Know Alphabets in Ilocano

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Ilocano Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Ilocano Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Ilocano. Ilocano phonology gives Ilocano vowels and Ilocano consonants. There are 6 vowels and 20 consonants in Ilocano language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Ilocano is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Ilocano language is given in detail in this section.

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All Ilocano countries

Want to explore all Ilocano countries? About Ilocano language serves you with all Ilocano Speaking Countries. Countries that use Ilocano as official language are called as Ilocano countries.

  • Countries that use Ilocano as their National Language are: Philippines.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Ilocano as second language are: Ilocano is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Ilocano greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Ilocano Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Ilocano language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Ilocano language.Learn Ilocano greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Kablaaw
  • Thank you: Agyamanak
  • Good Morning: Naimbag a bigat
  • Good Evening: Naimbag a sardam
  • Good Afternoon: Naimbag a malem

All Ilocano Language Codes

Get to know all Ilocano language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Ilocano Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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