- a variation of Ilocano.
Ilokano
Americannoun
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Ilokanos,
plural
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Ilokano
plural
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The custom of loaning for interest was gained from contact with the Lepanto Igorot, who received it from the Ilokano.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
The Filipino cab driver spoke to them in Ilokano, the Christian dialect of the province.
From The Golden Skull by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
The bolo within the Bontoc area comes from Sapao and from the Ilokano people of the west coast.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
Now and then a little fellow may be seen with a small, very rude bow and arrow, which also is borrowed from the Ilokano since the arrival of the Spaniard.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
The Spaniards and Ilokano in and about Bontoc Province say that it was about fifty years ago that the Spaniards first came to Bontoc.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
There are Tagalogs, Visayans, Bicols, Pampangans, Ilokanos, Cagayanes, etc., etc., to say nothing of the wild people themselves, all speaking different languages; but these can not be said to form one people.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox
This was a century too early for the country around Manila, which had been better protected and less abused than the provinces to the north where the Ilokanos revolted.
From Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by James Alexander Robertson
The day closed with a baile, given by the Ilokanos living in Bontok.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox
There are now eight or ten such women, wives of the resident Ilokanos of Bontoc pueblo, but those whose husbands left the pueblo have reverted to Igorot faith.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
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