Kalinga language

E145495

The Kalinga language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kalinga people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kalinga languages 4
Kalinga language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
language
closelyRelatedTo Bontok language
Ibanag language
Ifugao languages
Isnag language
continent Asia
country Philippines
ethnicGroup Kalinga people
hasAlternativeName Kalinga
Northern Kalinga (for some varieties)
hasDialect Balbalan Kalinga
Butbut Kalinga
Limos Kalinga
Lubuagan Kalinga
Mabaka Valley Kalinga
Majukayong Kalinga
Butbut Kalinga
surface form: Pasil Kalinga

Southern Kalinga
Tanudan Kalinga
Upper Tanudan Kalinga
hasLinguisticTypology Philippine-type Austronesian language
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature typical Philippine-type phoneme inventory
hasStatus minority language in the Philippines
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangered true
iso639-3Code kml
isPartOf Cordilleran languages
surface form: Cordilleran language group
languageBranch Cordilleran languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Cagayan Valley languages
surface form: Northern Luzon languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
region northern Cordillera region of Luzon
spokenBy Kalinga people
spokenIn Cordillera Administrative Region
Kalinga
surface form: Kalinga province

Luzon
Philippines
usedFor folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling
usedIn local community communication
traditional ceremonies
wordOrder verb–initial

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cordillera Administrative Region hasRegionalLanguages Kalinga language
this entity surface form: Kalinga languages
Proto-Philippine language hasDescendant Kalinga language
this entity surface form: Kalinga languages
Kalinga localLanguage Kalinga language
this entity surface form: Kalinga languages
Chico River hasLanguageRegion Kalinga language
this entity surface form: Kalinga languages