Facts About the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present; Pangasinan PDF
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Pangasinan Carl Rubino LanguageNameandAutonym:Pangasinan.ThetQimKaboloanwasusedduringSpanishoccupation,mdPanggalatois usedpejoratively. Location: LingayenGulf, Philippines, inmuchoftheprovinceofPangasinan andparts ofsouthernLaUnion. Family: South-CordilleranbranchofSouth-CentralCordillerangroupoftheMeso-CordilleransubgroupoftheNorthern Philippine subgroup ofthe Philippine subbranch ofthe Western Malayo-Polynesian branch ofthe Malayo-Polynesian subfamilyoftheAustronesianlanguagefamily. RelatedLanguages:PangasinanismostcloselyrelatedtotheSouthernCordilleranlanguagesinthePhilippines: Ilongot, Inibaloi, Karao, andKallahan. Dialects: DialectdiversityisminimalinthePangasinanregion.PangasinanspokeninSouthernLaUnion(municipalityof SantoTomds)ismarkedwithIlocanoinfluences. Thepurestformofthelanguageis spokenintheBinalatonganregionof theprovince aroundthetownsofUrbiztondo, SantaBarbara, andSanCarlos, thehistoricalcenterofPangasinanculture. NumberofSpeakers: 2million. Origin and History The exact origin of the Pangasinan people is still unknown. WecanspeculatethatthehomelandofthePangasinanpeople in the Philippines was onthe southern shores oftheLingayen Gulfbetween the sea and Agno river from where they spread — southward.Theirterms—fordirectiondapitHog'south toriver' anddapitbaybay'north tosea'contributetothisassumption. TheprovinceofPangasinanwascreatedbytheSpanishcon- quistadors that included lands dominated by Pangasinenses: present-dayPangasinan,NorthernTarlacandNuevaEcija,and oSfoutthheePrannLgaasUinniaonn.arAefatewratsheseutptrliesdinbgyoIflSoecrarnaotsientt1l8er1s6.,Mmauncyh ARCuanrbliEnnRocu,ybciClanroolp.e(de2di0s0a.1)o.FfaPcattnhsegaAWsobironlaudnt'.stIhMne:ajWGooarrrlrLdya',nsJgLauananeggeausna,dgPeass:t regions ofpresent-day Pangasinan province, which has con- andPresent. NewYork: H.WWilson. siderably decreased in size since Spanish colonial times, are dominated by ethnic Pangasinenses whose mother tongue is ILOCANO.
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