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unusual facts about Ilokano language


Ilokano language

Called the "Manong" generation, the Ilocano became the first Filipino ethnic group to emigrate en masse to the United States, where they formed sizable communities in Hawaii, California, Washington and Alaska.


Itawis language

Itawis, Itawit, or Tawit, is a Northern Philippine language which has close relationships to Ibanag, Ilocano, and other languages of the same order.

Panitian, Palawan

Panitian has a total population of about 7,500 subdivided into five ethno-linguistic subgroupings such as the Zambals, Ilonggo, Ilocano, Muslims in Sitio Odiong, and the Palawan minority found in Sitios Gugnan and Kambing.

Piat, Cagayan

One has it is that it derives from "piyas," an Ilokano word, in Ibanag "addulu" and in Tagalog, "kamiyas."

Quirino Airport

Quirino Airport (Filipino: Paliparan ng Quirino, Ilokano: Pagtayaban ti Quirino) is a planned airport that would serve the whole province of Quirino, in the municipality of Maddela.

School of Computing and Information Sciences, Saint Louis University, Baguio City

The School has worked on and is currently completing studies on promising areas in IT research such as natural language processing using local dialects (e.g., Ilokano and Tagalog), computational mathematics and algorithm, mobile and wireless computing, and measurement of IT literacy and fluency.


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