Kapampangan language

The Pampangan language or Kapampangan is one of the main languages of the Philippines. It is spoken in the province of Pampanga, most parts of Tarlac and Bataan.

Kapampangan
Pampangan Amánung Kapampangan, Amánung Sísuan
"Kapampangan" written in Kulitan, the native writing system of the language
Pronunciation	[kapamˈpaŋan]
Native to	Philippines (Central Luzon)
Region	Pampanga, southern Tarlac, northeastern Bataan, western Bulacan, southwestern Nueva Ecija and southeastern parts of Zambales
Ethnicity	Kapampangan people
Native speakers	2.4 million  (2010)e18
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Luzon Kapampangan
Dialects	Pampanga Tarlac Bataan
Writing system	Latin (Kapampangan alphabet) Historically written in: Kulitan
Official status
Official language in	Regional language of the Philippines
Regulated by	Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-2	pam
ISO 639-3	pam
Kapampangan-speaking area

Kapampangan Language Media

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  Amánung Sísuan (honorific name for 'mother language' (literally 'nurtured or suckled language') in Kulitan, Kapampangan's indigenous writing system

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  The Church of the Pater Noster in Jerusalem, with a Kapampangan version of the Lord's Prayer on the right

Other websites

• Bansa Kapampangan-English Dictionary Archived 2016-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Kapampangan Wiktionary
• 10 ICAL Paper – Issues in Orthography
• 10 ICAL Paper – Importance of Diacritical Marks
• 10 ICAL Paper – Transitivity & Pronominal Clitic Order
• Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database Archived 2017-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Electronic Kabalen – New Writing on Kapampangan Life & Letters
• Dying languages Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
• State can still save Kapampangan Archived 2007-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
• Wikibook Kapampangan
• Siuala ding Meangubie
• Online E-book of Arte de la Lengua Pampanga by Diego Bergaño. Originally published in 1736.