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Kankanaey

Kankanaey is a native language of the Cordillera Administrative Region, spoken mainly in Benguet and parts of Mountain Province.

Philippines Wika Kankanaey

Category

Katutubong Wika

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Language Family

Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Cordilleran

In Context

Kankanaey has northern and southern variants with some distinction in vocabulary, and is one of several Cordilleran languages spoken across the mountainous interior of northern Luzon alongside Ifugao, Bontoc, and Ibaloi.

Primary Regions

Cordillera Administrative Region

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This definition is part of the azifind.com Wika section, informed by the Philippine Statistics Authority 2020 Census of Population and Housing, Ethnologue, and the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino. View all Wika →