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Batangeño dialect

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Batangeño Tagalog
Native toPhilippines
RegionBatangas, Cavite, southwest Laguna & Oriental Mindoro
Native speakers
Batangeño
Austronesian
Latin (Tagalog or Filipino alphabet);
Historically Baybayin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologbata1300

Batengeño or Batangan is a dialect form of Tagalog language is a widely spoken in the southern mainland Luzon used in the provinces of Batangas, Cavite, southwestern of Laguna, the town of Tiaong and Oriental Mindoro[1], The Batangan tagalog is influenced by the Old Tagalog language. It is a related closely to Tayabas dialect spoked in the rest of Quezon.[2]

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