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Abellen language

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Native to
  
Philippines

Ethnicity
  
5,000 Aeta (2008?)

ISO 639-3
  
abp

Region
  
Tarlac

Native speakers
  
3,000 (2008)

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Luzon Sambalic Abellen

Abellen, Abenlen, or Aburlin is a Sambalic language. It has about 3,500 speakers (Stone 2005) and is spoken in a few Aeta communities in Tarlac province, Philippines.

Locations

Ethnologue reports Abellen Ayta speakers in the following locations of Tarlac Province.

  • Maamot, San Jose
  • Station Juliana, Mayantoc
  • Capas

    • Himes (2012) also reports the Abellen location of sitio Loob-Bunga, barangay Poon Bato, Botolan, Zambales.

    References

    Abellen language Wikipedia
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