Kankanaey

KNE

developing

Alternate Names: Central Kankanaey, Kankanai, Kankanay

Dialects: Bakun-Kibungan, Guinzadan, Kapangan, Mankayan-Buguias.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine
Northern Luzon
Meso-Cordilleran
South-Central Cordilleran
Central Cordilleran
North Central Cordilleran
Nuclear Cordilleran
Bontok-Kankanay
Kankanay

Demographics: 150,000 (1991 SIL). All Kankanai 218,000 (1990 census).

Language Use: Used as L2 by Southwestern Bontok [vbk].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 75%. Literacy rate in L2: 78%. NT: 1990–2000.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Philippines

Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian.