Kalinga language

Kalinga
Native to	Philippines
Region	most parts of Kalinga, northern parts of Mountain Province, eastern parts of Abra and southern parts of Apayao, Luzon
Native speakers	110,000 (1998–2008)[1] No estimate for Mabaka Valley
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon South–Central Cordilleran Central Cordilleran Kalinga–Itneg Kalinga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: bjx – Banao Itneg tis – Masadiit Itneg ity – Moyadan Itneg kyb – Butbut Kalinga kmk – Limos Kalinga kml – Tanudan Kalinga knb – Lubuagan Kalinga kkg – Mabaka Valley Kalinga kmd – Madukayang Kalinga ksc – Southern Kalinga (Bangad)
Glottolog	kali1311[2]
Area where the Kalinga dialect continuum is spoken according to Ethnologue

Kalinga is a dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Igorot people, alongside Ilocano. The Banao Itneg variety is not one of the neighboring Itneg languages.

Dialects

Ronald Himes (1997)^[3] divides Kalinga into 3 dialects.

• Masadiit (in Abra)
• Northern Kalinga
• South-Central Kalinga

References

1. Banao Itneg at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Masadiit Itneg at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Moyadan Itneg at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Butbut Kalinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Limos Kalinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Tanudan Kalinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kalinga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Himes, Ronald S. 1997. “Reconstructions in Kalinga-itneg”. Oceanic Linguistics 36 (1). University of Hawai'i Press: 102–34.