10 Facts About Pangasinan language

1.

Pangasinan language is spoken in southwestern La Union, as well as in the municipalities of Benguet, Nueva Vizcaya, Nueva Ecija, and Zambales that border Pangasinan language.

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2.

Pangasinan language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian languages branch of the Austronesian languages family.

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3.

The Pangasinan language is very closely related to the Ibaloi language spoken in the neighboring province of Benguet, located north of Pangasinan.

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4.

Pangasinan language is spoken in other Pangasinan language communities in the Philippines, mostly in the neighboring provinces of Benguet, La Union, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Zambales, and Nueva Vizcaya.

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5.

The indigenous speakers of Pangasinan language are descendants of these settlers, who were probably part of a wave of prehistoric human migration that is widely believed to have originated from Southern China via Taiwan between 10 and 6 thousand years ago.

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6.

Pangasinan language could refer to a "container of salt or salted-products"; it refers to the ceramic jar for storage of salt or salted-products or its contents.

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7.

Pangasinan language wrote Bilay tan Kalkalar nen Rizal, a biography of Rizal.

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8.

Many Pangasinan language are multilingual and proficient in English, Filipino, and Ilocano.

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9.

Pangasinan language literature, using the indigenous syllabary and the Latin alphabet, continued to flourish during the Spanish and American colonial period.

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10.

Pangasinan language acquired many Spanish and English words, and some indigenous words were Hispanicized or Anglicized.

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