Kalanguya, also called Kallahan, is a
dialect cluster
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
spoken by the
Kalanguya people of northern
Luzon
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,
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.
Distribution
Kalanguya (also called Ikalahan, Kalangoya, Kalangoya-Ikalahan, Kallahan, Kayapa) is spoken in the following locations:
*western
Nueva Vizcaya Province
Nueva Vizcaya, officially the Province of Nueva Vizcaya ( ilo, Probinsia ti Nueva Vizcaya; gad, Probinsia na Nueva Vizcaya; Pangasinan: ''Luyag/Probinsia na Nueva Vizcaya''; tl, Lalawigan ng Nueva Vizcaya ), is a landlocked province in the ...
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Ifugao Province
Ifugao, officially the Province of Ifugao ( ilo, Probinsia ti Ifugao; tl, Lalawigan ng Ifugao), is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Lagawe and it borders Benguet to the we ...
(Hungduan municipality)
*
Benguet Province
Benguet (), officially the Province of Benguet ('';'' ; pag, Luyag/Probinsia na Benguet; ilo, Probinsia ti Benguet; ), is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the southern tip of the Cordillera Administrative Region in the islan ...
(Bokod municipality)
*northeastern
Pangasinan Province
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(San Nicolas municipality)
The dialects of Kalanguya are
*Central Kalanguya (Kayapa)
*Northern Kalanguya (Ambaguio, Tinoc)
*Southern Kalanguya (Santa Fe)
*Western Kalanguya (Benguet)
Keley-i Kallahan (also called Antipolo Ifugao, Hanalulo, Keley-i, Keley-i Kalanguya, Keleyqiq Ifugao) is spoken in the Kiangan and Aritao municipalities of
Ifugao Province
Ifugao, officially the Province of Ifugao ( ilo, Probinsia ti Ifugao; tl, Lalawigan ng Ifugao), is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Lagawe and it borders Benguet to the we ...
. Its dialects are Bayninan and Ya-Tuka.
[Ethnologue]
References
Further reading
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External links
Online version of Hohulin et al.'s (2018) dictionary hosted by SIL International
Languages of Benguet
Languages of Nueva Vizcaya
South–Central Cordilleran languages
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