IGOROT TRIBE:

CULTURE & LANGUAGE

 CULTURE OF IGOROT TRIBE

Cultural elements common to the Igorot peoples as

a whole include metalworking in iron and brass, 
weaving, and animal sacrifice. They believe in
spirits, including those of ancestors, and have
complex rituals to propitiate them
Igorot weaving Animal sacrifice
There are no clans or tribes, and political organization is
generally limited to the village level.
 Kinship is traced on both the paternal and the maternal
sides, extending as far as third cousins.
 NON – MATERIAL CULTURE

Community Labor Sharing (Ubbo): This usually

happens during the planting and harvest seasons where
one family/household schedules and announces the job,
then neighbors or other villagers who are expecting to do
similar tasks come to help.
Community Labor Sharing (Gammal): One plans a
project and prepares an animal, usually an ut-utik (young
pig), to be butchered and divided equally as wage for the
men volunteers to work on the project.
Division of Work in the Family : Normally, men do the
preparation of a kaingin while women do the planting.
Harvesting is mostly done by women but men also help
carry the harvest to granaries or to home.
 LANGUAGE OF IGOROT TRIBE

Their language is Austronesian (Malayo-

Polynesian), similar to one of neighbors, but with a
number of particular characteristics that set them
apart.
 Igorots speak their own languages (Bontok, Ibaloy, Kankanaey,
Isneg, Kalinga, etc.)
1. Bontoc (Bontok) - (also called Finallig) is the native
language of the indigenous Bontoc people of the Mountain
Province, in the northern part of the Philippines.
2. Ibaloy - The Ibaloi language belongs to the 
Malayo-Polynesianbranch of the Austronesian languages
 family. The Ibaloi language is closely related to the 
Pangasinan language, primarily spoken in the province of 
Pangasinan, located southwest of Benguet.
3. Kankanaey- is a South-Central
Cordilleran language under the Austronesian family
spoken on the island of Luzon in the Philippines primarily
by the Kankanaey people. Alternate names for
the language include CentralKankanaey, Kankanai, and
Kankanay.
4. Isnag- (also called Isneg) is a language spoken by around
40,000 Isnag people of Apayao Province in the 
Cordillera Administrative Region in the northern Philippines.
Around 85% of Isnag are capable of reading the Isnag
language.Many Isnag speakers also speak Ilocano.
5. Kalinga- is a dialect continuum of 
Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the 
Kalinga people, alongside Ilocano. The Banao Itneg
variety is not one of the neighboring 
Itneg languages.