Yogad language

Yogad
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Native speakers	(16,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Cagayan Valley Ibanagic Yogad
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yog
Glottolog	yoga1237
Area where the Yogad language is spoken

Yogad is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in Echague and other nearby towns in Isabela province in northern Philippines. The 1990 census claimed there were around 16,000 speakers.^[2]

Anthropologist H. Otley Beyer describes Yogad as a variant of Gaddang language and the people as a sub-group of the Gaddang people in his 1917 catalogue of Philippines ethnic groups.^[3] Glottolog presently groups it as a member of the Gaddangic group; in 2015, however, Ethnologue placed Yogad as a separate member of the Ibanagic language family. Godfrey Lambrecht, CICM, also distinguished separately the peoples who spoke the two languages.^[4]

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

• Davis, Philip W.; Mesa, Angel D. (2000). A Dictionary of Yogad. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europa.

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