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Ilocano|iːləʊˈkɑːnəʊ|
[Philippine Sp., f. Ilocos, the name of two provinces, lit. ‘river men’, f. Tagalog ilog river.]
a. A member of a people inhabiting the north-western part of Luzon in the Republic of the Philippines.
b. The language of this people. Also attrib. So Iˈlocan a. and n.; Iˈloko, Yˈloco.
1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 88/2 The other tribes that are numerous, the Pampanga, Zambales, Pangasinan, Ylocos, and Cagayan, inhabit the other plains and lower country. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 753/1 Other tribes of the Philippines—the Ilocanes, Pampangos, Pangasinanes,..Vicols, &c. 1898D. C. Worcester Philippine Islands 438 Of these [tribes] the Tagalogs and Ilocanos are the most important. 1900F. H. Sawyer Inhabitants Philippines 250 Many converted Tinguianes and Igorrotes who speak the Ilocan dialect. 1901Rep. Philippine Comm. III. 400 The first booklets in Ilocano are in Tagalog characters. 1905F. W. Atkinson Philippine Isl. 238 The Ilocanos, who inhabit the northern province of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, and Unión, in Luzón. 1914D. C. Worcester Philippines Past & Present I. 21 The Ilocanos are one of the eight civilized peoples who collectively make up the Filipinos. 1925K. Mayo Isles of Fear 50 Families..of the energetic Ilocano tribe. 1958G. Mikes East is East 88 The twenty million inhabitants of the islands [sc. Philippines] have about seventy native tongues... Sugbuanon, Iloko, Bikol and Samarnon are not among the major forces of civilisation, nor is even Tagalog, the most widespread and most cultivated of the native tongues. 1962H. C. Conklin in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 135 In passing, it may be noted that pronoun systems in Tagalog, Ilocano..and some other Philippine languages exhibit very similar..semantic relationships. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 195 On the other hand some languages, e.g. Quechua, Aymara, Ilocano and Eskimo, include much more in the verb than is included in the Greek verb. |