Gaddang

GAD

vigorous

Alternate Names: Cagayan

Dialects: None known. Less than 80% intelligibility of Ga’dang ,. Lexical similarity: 80% with Ga’dang ,.

Genealogy:

Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian

Philippine

Northern Luzon

Northern Cordilleran

Cagayan Valley

Ibanagic

Gaddangic

Demographics: 30,000 (1984 SIL).

Language Use: Also use Ilocano [ilo].

Language Development: Dictionary. Grammar.

Nation of Origin: Philippines

Other Comments: A lowland group. Ethnonym: Gaddang for those in Nueva Vizcaya; Cagayan, for those in central Isabela. Christian.