Igorot people
The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera in northern Luzon, Philippines, often referred to by the exonym Igorot people, or more recently, as the Cordilleran peoples, are an ethnic group composed of nine main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains are in the Cordillera Mountain Range, altogether numbering about 1.8 million people in the early 21st century.
Elderly Igorots in traditional attire | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,854,556 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Philippines (Cordillera Administrative Region, Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley) | |
| Languages | |
| Bontoc, Ilocano, Itneg, Ibaloi, Isnag, Kankanaey, Bugkalot, Kalanguya, Isinai, Filipino, English | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism), Animism (Indigenous Philippine folk religions) |
Their languages belong to the northern Luzon subgroup of Philippine languages, which in turn belongs to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family.
These ethnic groups keep or have kept until recently their traditional religion and way of life. Some live in the tropical forests of the foothills, but most live in rugged grassland and pine forest zones higher up.
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