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Yogad is an
Austronesian language The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken b ...
spoken primarily in
Echague Echague, officially the Municipality of Echague, is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Isabela (province), Isabela, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 88,410 peo ...
and other nearby towns in Isabela province in northern
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. The 1990 census claimed there were around 16,000 speakers.


Classification

Anthropologist H. Otley Beyer describes Yogad as a variant of Gaddang language and the people as a sub-group of the
Gaddang people The Gaddang are an officially-recognized Indigenous peoples of the Philippines, indigenous people and a linguistically identified ethnic groups in the Philippines, ethnic group residing for centuries in the Northern Luzon watershed of the Cagayan Ri ...
in his 1917 catalogue of Philippines ethnic groups.
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presently groups it as a member of the ''Gaddangic'' group; in 2015, however, ''
Ethnologue ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensive catalogue of languages. It w ...
'' placed Yogad as a separate member of the ''Ibanagic'' language family. Godfrey Lambrecht, CICM, also distinguished separately the peoples who spoke the two languages.


Alphabet

The Yogad alphabet has 21 letters composed of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.


References

* Languages of Isabela (province) Cagayan Valley languages {{Philippine-lang-stub