The Southern Cordilleran languages are a group of closely related languages within the
Northern Luzon subgroup of the
Austronesian language family.
They are spoken in an area stretching from the southern shore of the
Lingayen Gulf to the highlands of
Quirino province. The most widely spoken Southern Cordilleran language is
Pangasinan, one of the eight major
languages of the Philippines
There are some 120 to 187 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago. A number of Spanish-influenced creole varieties generally called C ...
.
Internal classification
The subgroup was first proposed by Zorc (1979).
[ Himes (1998) classifies the Southern Cordilleran languages as follows:][
** Ilongot
**West Southern Cordilleran
*** Pangasinan
***Nuclear Southern Cordilleran
****]Ibaloi
The Ibaloi (also spelled Ibaloy; Ibaloi: ''ivadoy'', ) are an indigenous ethnic group found in Benguet Province of the northern Philippines.
''Ibaloi'' is derived from ''i-'', a prefix signifying "pertaining to" and ''badoy'' or house, together ...
(including Iwak)
**** Karao
**** Kalanguya
Reconstruction
Proto-Southern Cordilleran has been reconstructed by Himes (1998).[
]
Phonology
Vocabulary
The comparison table (taken from Himes (1998)[ and Zorc (1979)]
References
External links
"Southern Cordilleran"
at '' Ethnologue'', 23rd ed., 2020.
{{Austronesian languages
Northern Luzon languages
South–Central Cordilleran languages