title: Bugkalot language
text: # Bugkalot language
  
  Bugkalot (also Ilongot) is a language of the indigenous Bugkalot people of northern Luzon, Philippines.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Ethnologue lists the following provinces in which Ilongot is spoken.
  
  * Most of Quirino Province north of the Cagayan River
  * Eastern Nueva Vizcaya Province
  * Southern Isabela Province (upper reaches of the Cagayan River)
  
  ## Dialects
  
  Ethnologue lists the following dialects.
  
  * Abaka (Abaca)
  * Egongot
  * Ibalao (Ibilao)
  * Italon
  * Iyongut
  
  Alternate names include Bugkalut, Bukalot, and Lingotes.
  
  