14 Facts About Kapampangan language

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Kapampangan language is spoken in northeastern Bataan, as well as in the municipalities of Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, and Zambales that border Pampanga.

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2.

The Kapampangan language was historically spoken in the Kingdom of Tondo, ruled by the Lakans.

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3.

Kapampangan language produced two 19th-century literary giants; Anselmo Fajardo was noted for Gonzalo de Cordova and Comedia Heroica de la Conquista de Granada, and playwright Juan Crisostomo Soto wrote Alang Dios in 1901.

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4.

Kapampangan language is predominantly spoken in the province of Pampanga and southern Tarlac.

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5.

In Mindanao, a significant Kapampangan language-speaking minority exists in South Cotabato, specifically in General Santos and the municipalities of Polomolok and Tupi.

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6.

Standard Kapampangan language has 21 phonemes: 15 consonants and five vowels; some western dialects have six vowels.

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7.

Proto-Philippine is tanam in Kapampangan language, compared with Tagalog tanim, Cebuano tanom and Ilocano tanem (grave).

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8.

Kapampangan language nouns are not inflected, but are usually preceded by case markers.

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9.

Unlike English and Spanish and Inuit and Basque (which are ergative–absolutive languages), Kapampangan has Austronesian alignment (in common with most Philippine languages).

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10.

Kapampangan language pronouns are categorized by case: absolutive, ergative, and oblique.

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11.

Kapampangan language verbs are morphologically complex, and take a variety of affixes reflecting focus, aspect and mode.

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12.

The Kapampangan language has Austronesian alignment, and the verbs change according to triggers in the sentence.

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13.

Kapampangan language has five voices: agent, patient, goal, locative, and cirumstantial.

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Kapampangan language is usually written in one of three different writing systems: sulat Baculud, sulat Wawa and a hybrid of the two, Amung Samson.

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