Ivatan Ivatan

Ivatan - Definition and Overview

The Ivatan or Ibatan language is spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands in the most northern reaches of the Philippines. There are approximately 30,000 speakers.

Ivatan
Spoken in: Philippines
Region: Northern Luzon
First language speakers: 30,000
Second language speakers: negligible
Ranking:
Genetic
classification: 		Austronesian

  Malayo-Polynesian
   Western
    Northern Philippine
     Northern Luzon
     Ivatan

Official status
Official language of: -
Regulated by: -
Language codes
ISO-
ISO
SIL

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