Central Luzon languages

Central Luzon
Central Luzon
Geographic; distribution	western parts of Central Luzon, near Mount Pinatubo
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Philippine Central Luzon; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Kapampangan; Sambalic; Sinauna;
Glottolog	cent2080
	Geographic extent of Central Luzon languages based on Ethnologue

The Central Luzon languages are a group of languages belonging to the Philippine languages. These are predominantly spoken in the western portions of Central Luzon in the Philippines. One of them, Kapampangan, is the major language of the Mount Pinatubo area. However, despite having three million speakers, it is threatened by the diaspora of its speakers after the 1991 eruption of that volcano.

Internal classification

The Central Luzon languages are:

Kapampangan
Sambali
- Abellen
- Ambala
- Bolinao
- Botolan
- Mag-antsi
- Mag-indi
- Mariveleño
- Sambali
Sinauna

References

Himes, Ronald S. 2012. “The Central Luzon Group of Languages”. Oceanic Linguistics 51 (2). University of Hawai'i Press: 490–537.

This Austronesian languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.