Bugkalot language

Not to be confused with the Ilongo language, also of the Philippines.

Bugkalot
Region	Eastern Nueva Vizcaya, Western Quirino, east Nueva Ecija, northwest Aurora, Philippines
Ethnicity	Bugkalot
Native speakers	6,000 (2010 census) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Meso-Cordilleran Southern Cordilleran Bugkalot
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ilk
Glottolog	ilon1239
Area where Bugkalot is spoken [1]

Bugkalot (also Ilongot) is a language ^[2] of the indigenous Bugkalot people of northern Luzon, Philippines.

Distribution

Ethnologue lists the following provinces in which Ilongot is spoken.

• Most of Quirino Province north of the Cagayan River
• Eastern Nueva Vizcaya Province
• Southern Isabela Province (upper reaches of the Cagayan River)
• Northwest Aurora

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects.

• Abaka (Abaca)
• Egongot
• Ibalao (Ibilao)
• Italon
• Iyongut

Alternate names include Bugkalut, Bukalot, and Lingotes.

References

1. Bugkalot at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ilongot". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.