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Ilocano

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I·lo·ca·no also I·lo·ka·no  (l-kän)
n. pl. Ilocano or I·lo·ca·nos also Ilokano or I·lo·ka·nos
1. A member of an agricultural people of northern Luzon in the Philippines.
2. The Austronesian language of the Ilocano.
adj.
Of or relating to the Ilocano or their language or culture.

[Spanish Ilócano, from Ilóko, people who live along the shore (unattested sense), Austronesian people of the Philippines; perhaps akin to luék, luók, cove.]


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After his assumption of direct management in 1903, Kennon recruited a disproportionate number of Ilocano migrants to Nueva Ecija and Pangasinan.
He had spent two years living and working with residents of Leyte and Samar, and he had learned to communicate in Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano and Waray-Waray, which gave him credibility with natives and Americans alike.
The switching from Japanese to Tagalog, from English to Ilocano and Tagalog in Veronica and Augusta's dialogues enacts the ways in which these two Filipinas maneuvered their communications under official surveillance in order to offer each other support.
 
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