Malaweg (Malaueg) is spoken by the Malaweg people in the northern part of the
Philippines
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. ''Ethnologue'' lists it as a dialect of the
Itawis language.
[Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices]
Malaweg is mostly spoken in the Northern
Cordillera Mountain Range
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region and some in the
Province
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of
Cagayan
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, with the majority in the town of
Rizal. Ninety-eight percent of the people living in Rizal are Malaweg-speaking, and the town is known as "The Premier Town of the Malaweg".
Origin
From Fr. Jose Bugarin's Ibanag Dictionary "Ueg
odern: uweg river estuary. Pl. ueueg
weweg= Malaueg: a town in this province, in the district of Itaves (Itawis, now Chico River)"
References
External links
Malaweg lexiconMalaweg syntaxOrtograpiya Ya Malawég (2016)
by Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino
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(KWF)
Languages of Cagayan
Languages of Apayao
Cagayan Valley languages
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