Kalinga language

Kalinga
Kalinga
Native to	Philippines
Region	most parts of Kalinga, northern parts of Mountain Province, eastern parts of Abra and southern parts of Apayao, Luzon
Native speakers	(110,000 cited 1998–2008); No estimate for Mabaka Valley
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon South–Central Cordilleran Central Cordilleran Kalinga–Itneg Kalinga; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; bjx – Banao Itneg; tis – Masadiit Itneg; ity – Moyadan Itneg; kyb – Butbut Kalinga; kmk – Limos Kalinga; kml – Tanudan Kalinga; knb – Lubuagan Kalinga; kkg – Mabaka Valley Kalinga; kmd – Madukayang Kalinga; ksc – Southern Kalinga (Bangad)
Glottolog	kali1311
	Area where the Kalinga dialect continuum is spoken according to Ethnologue

Kalinga is a dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Igorot people, alongside Ilocano. The Banao Itneg variety is not one of the neighboring Itneg languages.

Dialects

Ronald Himes (1997)^[2] divides Kalinga into 3 dialects.

^ Banao Itneg at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Masadiit Itneg at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Moyadan Itneg at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Butbut Kalinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Limos Kalinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tanudan Kalinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
(Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
^ Himes, Ronald S. 1997. “Reconstructions in Kalinga-itneg”. Oceanic Linguistics 36 (1). University of Hawai'i Press: 102–34.

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