Central Luzon languages
| Central Luzon | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | western parts of Central Luzon near Mount Pinatubo and the whole Pampanga province |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Subdivisions | |
| 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 Pampanga-Mount Pinatubo area. However, despite having three to four million speakers, it is threatened by the diaspora of its speakers after the June 1991 eruption of that volcano. Globalization also threatened the language, with the younger generation more on using and speaking Tagalog and English, but promotion and everyday usage boosted the vitality of Kapampangan.[1]
Internal classification
The Central Luzon languages are:
References
- ^ Banal, Ruston (7 September 2014). "Wear Kapampangan: T-shirt entrepreneurs seek to boost Pampanga's language". Inquirer. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- Himes, Ronald S. 2012. “The Central Luzon Group of Languages”. Oceanic Linguistics 51 (2). University of Hawai'i Press: 490–537.
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