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Ilocano
[ ee-loh-kah-noh ]
noun
- a member of a people of Luzon in the Philippines.
- the Austronesian language of the Ilocano.
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Four of those also speak Ilocano, another language spoken by some in the Philippines.
The seeds contain up to 45% of oil known in the Philippines under the name of lana, an Ilocano word meaning “oil.”
When they arrived they made one child of an Ilocano sick so that there would be a reason for giving them bolos to eat.
My own collection was begun among Ilocano of Union Province from whom about two hundred examples were secured.
General Young gave the Ilocano country a lesson it never forgot, before politics had time to interfere.
The principal language is Pangasinan; Ilocano is also spoken.
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