Alangan language

Alangan
Alangan
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mimaropa
Native speakers	2,150 (2002)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Luzon (?) Northern Mindoro Alangan; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	alj
Glottolog	alan1249

The Alangan language is a language spoken by Mangyans in the province of Mindoro in the Philippines.

Alangan is spoken by 2,150 people in the following municipalities of north-central Mindoro (Ethnologue).

The Ayan Bekeg dialect spoken on the northeast slopes of Mount Halcon is understood by Alangan speakers throughout the area (Tweddell 1970:193).[2]

Barbian (1977)[3] lists the following locations.

Casague, Santa Cruz, Occidental Mindoro
Kulasisi (tributary of the Mompong River), near Barrio Arellano, Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro

References

Alangan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tweddell, Colin E. 1970. "The Identity and Distribution of the Mangyan Tribes of Mindoro, Philippines". Anthropological Linguistics 12 (6).
Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. English-Mangyan vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.

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