Kapampangan is a member of the Central Luzon branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. It has about 2.8 million speakers mainly in the central plains of Luzon in the Philippines. It is the main language of Pampanga Province, and of southern Tarlac Province, and is also spoken in the provinces of Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija and Zambales, and in Manlia, Palawan and Mindanao, particularly in Cagayan de Oro, Davao City, South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat.
Kapampangan is also known as Pampangan, Capampáñgan. Amánung Kapangpángan or Amánung Sísuan. The name Kapampangan comes from the Pampanga Province, which gets its name from pampáng (riverbank).
Kapampangan was written with a version of the Baybayin alphabet before the arrival of the Spanish in the Philippines during the 16th century. It has also been written with the Kulitan script.
Source: http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/baychart.htm
Nowadays Kapampangan is written with the Latin alphabet, and there are several spelling systems, including the Sulat Baculud, which is based on Spanish spelling, the Sulat Wawa, an "indigenized" version of the first, and Amung Samson, a hybrid of the two others. The Sulat Baculud was developed by the Spanish in 1699. The Sulat Wawa is used by the Akademyang Kapampangan (Kapampangan Academy) and has become the more popular orthography. It is based on the Abakada alphabet, which was developed for Tagalog and other languages of the Philippines in the early 20th century by Dr. Lope K. Santos, a Philippine writer and senator. The Amung Samson was developed in the 1970s by Venancio Samson, a former Catholic priest who translated the Bible into Kapampangan.
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Ding sablang tau mibait lang malaya at pante-pante king karangalan at karapatan. Ila mipagkaluban lang katuliran at konsensiya ay dapat misaupan king diwang pamikapatiran.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Information about Kapampangan | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Information about the Kapampangan languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapampangan_language
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kapampangan/Introduction
https://kapampangan.net/
https://sinaunangpanahon.com/kapampangan-language-of-the-philippines/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358840329_Kapampangan_People_and_Their_Language_A_Case_Study
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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