Ilocano
Americannoun
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Ilocanos,
plural
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Ilocano
plural
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a member of a people of Luzon in the Philippines.
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the Austronesian language of the Ilocano.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Ilocano
1830–40; < Spanish, equivalent to Ilok ( o ) the Ilocano name for themselves + -ano -an
Example Sentences
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At his embassy interview, Talania was provided an interpreter who spoke Tagalog, not Ilocano, Alice Yu said, which wasn’t ideal for making his case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
“No, anak ko!” she shrieked, using an Ilocano term meaning “my child.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
“My dad loves making kilawin with the cow’s skin or goat skin,” said Sheldon Simeon, a Hawaiian chef with his own recipe for Ilocano cow skin.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023
"They ask me, why? You're an Ilocano, why do you vote for someone else? But my answer is simple. It's because I'm a Filipino."
From BBC ● May 5, 2022
Thousands upon thousands of natives who only speak a little Spanish can both speak, read, and write their native Tagalo, Ilocano, or Visayan, as the case may be.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
Silence was to be expected from the Ilocanos, the ingenious "Yankees of the Philippines" in whose villages life followed its immemorial pattern regardless of conquest.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the southern and eastern part of their province is partly inhabited by Pampangos and Ilocanos.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
The constant intercourse they have with the Ilocanos has resulted in spreading that dialect amongst them, whilst their own language is dying out.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
Blumentritt attributes the energy and activity of the Ilocanos to an admixture, even though it be small, of these brave and hardy races.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
Just at dusk we reached the little settlement of Trinidad, which had been the capital of the Spanish comandancia of Benguet, finding that its inhabitants were in part Ilocanos and in part Igorots.
From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Dean C. Worcester
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