Austronesian family
Ilocano
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Ilocano (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Ilocano.
See Ilocano on the interactive map- Speakers
- 8M (8,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- ilo
- Glottocode
- ilok1237
Northern Luzon (Cordilleran) language and lingua franca of northern Luzon. Philippine subgroup node not tracked.
Lineage
- Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
- Ilocanoc. 1500 CE – today
Sister languages 9
Also descended from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.