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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During his visa interviews with embassy officials, Talania was not provided an Ilocano interpreter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
“All our hard work burned,” Rosales told The Associated Press in an interview conducted in Ilocano, her native language.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Marcos Jr wished him congratulations on Facebook, addressing him in Ilocano, the language that binds roughly 10 million Filipinos culturally and politically.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 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
Apparently, they first came in contact with the Spanish in 1572 when Salcedo was entrusted with the task of subduing that part of Luzon now known as the Ilocano provinces.
From The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Cole, Fay-Cooper
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
Angangalo is the name of the Adam of the Ilocanos.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill
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 Sawyer, Frederic H.
The government has steadily encouraged the Ilocanos and others to settle in Cagayan and plant tobacco, giving them free passages and advances of money in the days of the monopoly.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
But the southern and eastern part of their province is partly inhabited by Pampangos and Ilocanos.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
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