- a variation of Ilocano.
Ilokano
Americannoun
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Ilokanos,
plural
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Ilokano
plural
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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
The rich valleys of Zambales have long attracted Ilokano immigrants, who have founded several important towns.
From Negritos of Zambales by William Allan Reed
As a prominent Ilokano in the town of San Marcelino expressed it, when they first came they worked for the Zambals, who held all the good land.
From Negritos of Zambales by William Allan Reed
The disagreement was settled, and several Ilokano families left Bontoc under the protection of Mr. Riley.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
During the months of January and February, 1903, when there was much wind, the boys were daily flying kites, but it is a pastime borrowed of the Ilokano in the pueblo.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
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
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
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 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
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