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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The Kapampangan language was historically spoken in the Kingdom of Tondo, ruled by the Lakans.
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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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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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Standard Kapampangan language has 21 phonemes: 15 consonants and five vowels; some western dialects have six vowels.
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Proto-Philippine is tanam in Kapampangan language, compared with Tagalog tanim, Cebuano tanom and Ilocano tanem (grave).
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Kapampangan language nouns are not inflected, but are usually preceded by case markers.
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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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Kapampangan language pronouns are categorized by case: absolutive, ergative, and oblique.
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Kapampangan language verbs are morphologically complex, and take a variety of affixes reflecting focus, aspect and mode.
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The Kapampangan language has Austronesian alignment, and the verbs change according to triggers in the sentence.
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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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