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Alangan
Alangan
Native to	Philippines
Region	Mimaropa
Native speakers	2,150 (2002)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Luzon (?) Northern Mindoro Alangan; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	alj
Glottolog	alan1249

The Alangan language is a language spoken by Mangyans in the province of Mindoro in the Philippines.

Alangan is spoken by 2,150 people in the following municipalities of north-central Mindoro (Ethnologue).

The Ayan Bekeg dialect spoken on the northeast slopes of Mount Halcon is understood by Alangan speakers throughout the area (Tweddell 1970:193).^[2]

Barbian (1977)^[3] lists the following locations.

Casague, Santa Cruz, Occidental Mindoro
Kulasisi (tributary of the Mompong River), near Barrio Arellano, Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro

References[edit]

^ Alangan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Tweddell, Colin E. 1970. "The Identity and Distribution of the Mangyan Tribes of Mindoro, Philippines". Anthropological Linguistics 12 (6).
^ Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. English-Mangyan vocabulary. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.

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