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Pangasinan Language Pangasinense
Pangasinan is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Pangasinan is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Pangasinan
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Northern Luzon
- Meso-Cordilleran
- South-Central Cordilleran
- Southern Cordilleran
- West Southern Cordilleran
- Pangasinan
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Pangasinan language
Pangasinan (Pangasinense) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 375th most spoken language in the world — just behind Manipuri (1.5 million) and ahead of Cusco Quechua (1.5 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the West Southern Cordilleran group within the Northern Luzon branch.
Where is Pangasinan spoken?
Pangasinan is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Philippines (1.7 million).
Pangasinan is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Philippines.
Writing system and status
Pangasinan is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Iloko.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 pag.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.