• Threatened

  40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 4,000

  Native speakers worldwide

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Ilocano

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Very high level of bilingualism in Ilocano, young people begin to tend to prefer it to Adasen.

Scripts (Writing system)

Latin

More on Orthography

Fairly high level of literacy.

PLACES

Philippines

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Spoken in northeastern Luzon, in northwestern Abra Province.

• Threatened

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 4,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  5,715

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Data for the number of native speakers comes from NTM.