Central Luzon languages
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| Geographic distribution: | western parts of Central Luzon, near Mount Pinatubo |
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| Glottolog: | cent2080[1] |
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Geographic extent of Central Luzon languages based on Ethnologue | |
The Central Luzon languages are a group of languages belonging to the Philippine languages. These are predominantly spoken in the western portions of Central Luzon in the Philippines. One of them, Kapampangan, is the major language of the Mount Pinatubo area. However, despite having three million speakers, it is threatened by the diaspora of its speakers after the 1991 eruption of that volcano.
Internal classification
The Central Luzon languages are:
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Central Luzon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Himes, Ronald S. 2012. “The Central Luzon Group of Languages”. Oceanic Linguistics 51 (2). University of Hawai'i Press: 490–537.
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