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Malaweg (Malaueg) is spoken by the Malaweg people in the northern part of the Philippines. As per Ethnologue, it is a dialect of the Itawis language.[2]

Malaweg
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Native speakers	(14,500 cited 1990 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Cagayan Valley Itawis Malaweg
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	mala1534

Malaweg is mostly spoken in the Northern Cordillera Mountain Range region and some in the Province of Cagayan, 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".^{[citation needed]}

Origin

From Fr. Jose Bugarin's Ibanag Dictionary "Ueg [modern: uweg], river estuary. Pl. ueueg [uweweg] = Malaueg: a town in this province, in the district of Itaves (Itawis, now Chico River)"

References

External links

• Malaweg lexicon
• Malaweg syntax
• Ortograpiya Ya Malawég (2016) by Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF)

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