Kapampangan

E82018

Kapampangan is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Pampanga region of the Philippines by the Kapampangan ethnic group.


Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Central Luzon language
Philippine language
closelyRelatedTo Sambal
Tagalog
country Philippines
hasAlternativeName Capampañgan
Pampangan
Pampango
hasCulturalAssociation Kapampangan cuisine
Kapampangan festivals
Kapampangan literature
hasDialects Pampanga Kapampangan
Tarlac Kapampangan
hasEthnologueEntry Kapampangan language
hasGlottologCode pamp1243
hasGrammaticalFeature Austronesian alignment
focus system
verb–initial word order
hasNativeName Amánung Kapampangan
Kapampangan
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate over 2 million
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive stress
rich consonant inventory
isMinorityLanguageIn Philippines
iso639-2Code pam
iso639-3Code pam
languageFamily Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
region Central Luzon
regulatedBy Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
spokenBy Kapampangan people
spokenIn Bataan
Pampanga
Philippines
Tarlac
status regional language in the Philippines
subfamily Central Luzon languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
Philippine languages
usedFor daily communication in Pampanga
folk songs
oral literature
religious practices
usedIn education in some schools in Pampanga
local media in Pampanga
writingSystem Kulitan script
Latin script


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