- Official language in
- Philippines
- Script
- Latin
Where it's spoken
Lim's thesis describes Pangasinan as an Austronesian language spoken in the central province of Pangasinan in north-central Luzon, Philippines. The thesis notes that dialectal variation exists between different villages in Pangasinan.
The Philippine Constitution makes Filipino and, until otherwise provided by law, English the official languages, and the regional languages the auxiliary official languages in the regions. A study of the country's mother-tongue education lists Pangasinan among the eight major regional languages, the ones with the greatest number of speakers. The Unicode CLDR data records Pangasinan in the Philippines with the status official_regional.
Sources
- The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines (The LawPhil Project text) — Art. XIV, Sec. 7 (official languages; auxiliary regional languages)
- Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), supplementalData.xml and likelySubtags.xml — territory PH: languagePopulation type="pag" officialStatus="official_regional"
- Lim, Shu Ying Joey (2020). Clitic Doubling, the Double Nominative Construction, and Word Order in Pangasinan. Honours thesis, National University of Singapore — Chapter 1 (Introduction), first and second paragraphs
- Melchor, Jillian Loise L. "The Suitability of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) Learning Materials: An Analysis of K to 12 Ilocano Short Stories." University of Hawaii at Hilo, Humanities journal — the eight major regional languages
Script & pronunciation
Pangasinan is written in the Latin script. This app's Pangasinan cards show the Pangasinan text only; none of them carries a separate romanization.
Sources
- Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), supplementalData.xml and likelySubtags.xml — language pag: scripts="Latn"; likelySubtag pag_Latn_PH
Grammar essentials
Lim's thesis describes Philippine languages as typically predicate-initial and describes Pangasinan as dominantly predicate-initial, especially in its spoken variety. In the app's card Ag ko amta ("I do not know"), the negator Ag comes first, followed by ko and the verb amta. The thesis shows the same pattern in a negated sentence, where the negator Ag comes first and is followed by the pronoun clitic and then the verb.
Sources
- Lim, Shu Ying Joey (2020). Clitic Doubling, the Double Nominative Construction, and Word Order in Pangasinan. Honours thesis, National University of Singapore — Chapter 2, section 2.1; Chapter 5, section 5.2, example (44b); Chapter 6 (Word Order), opening paragraph