Karao is a member of the Northern Luzon group of Philippine languages. It is spoken by about 2,000 people in Benguet and Ifugao provinces in the north of Luzon in the Philippines. In particular, it is spoken in the villages of Karao and Ekip north of Bokod in the east of Benguet, and also in the southwest of Ifugao.
Karao is also known as Karaw or Ikarao, and Karao speakers call their language and themselves i-karao. There appear to be several ways to write it with the Latin alphabet.
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Gwariy sambaliy a gwared chontog a gwariy payow cha. Say pahiy nonta bayag, iyangkamolimol a babenay. Et no medom, si-kara ngon onkwan chiwa alang, nem ngaaw tep otik i imag niwa mahaalangen.
There was a married couple who were in the mountains who had a rice field. Unhusked rice long ago, they were round and big. And when they [the unhusked rice] were ripe, they would go to the granary by themselves, but there was a problem because the owner of the granary had made it too small.
Source: Karao texts by Sherri Brainard.
Information about Karao | Numbers
Information about Karao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karao_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karao
https://www.academia.edu/74335348/The_phonology_of_Karao_the_Philippines
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kara1487
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/kyj
http://www.language-archives.org/language/kyj
Arta, Balangao, Bontoc, Bugkalot, Dupaningan, Gaʼdang, Gaddang, Ibaloi, Ibanag, Ifugao, Ilocano, Isinai, Itawis, Kankanaey, Karao, Pangasinan, Tuwali, Yogad
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 19.06.26. Last modified: 23.06.26
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