The Central Luzon languages are a group of languages belonging to the Philippine languages. These are predominantly spoken in the western portions of Central Luzon in the Philippines. One of them, Kapampangan, is the major language of the Pampanga-Mount Pinatubo area. However, despite having three to four million speakers, it is threatened by the diaspora of its speakers after the June 1991 eruption of that volcano. Globalization also threatened the language, with the younger generation more on using and speaking Tagalog and English, but promotion and everyday usage boosted the vitality of Kapampangan.[1]

Central Luzon
Geographic distribution	Western parts of Central Luzon near Mount Pinatubo and the whole Pampanga province
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Luzon
Proto-language	Proto-Central Luzon
Subdivisions	Kapampangan Sambalic Sinauna
Glottolog	cent2080
Geographic extent of Central Luzon languages based on Ethnologue

External relationships

Ronald Himes (2012)[2] and Lawrence Reid (2015)[3] suggest that the Northern Mindoro languages may group with the Central Luzon languages. Both branches share the phonological innovation Proto-Austronesian *R > /y/.

Internal classification

The Central Luzon languages are:

• Kapampangan
• Sambalic
  • Abellen
  • Ambala
  • Bolinao
  • Botolan
  • Mag-antsi
  • Mag-indi
  • Mariveleño
  • Sambali
• Sinauna

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