Ilocano
noun
Ilo·ca·no
ˌē-lə-ˈkä-(ˌ)nō 
ˌi-
variants
or Ilokano
plural Ilocano or Ilocanos or Ilokano or Ilokanos
1
: a member of a major people of northern Luzon in the Philippines
2
: the Austronesian language of the Ilocano people
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Others have also helped organize translators for Ilocano, another language that is particularly common among immigrants in Lahaina, spoken in the Ilocos region of the Philippines, where men had historically been recruited to work on plantations in Hawaii.
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Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2023
My parents spoke Ilocano and Spanish at home, but also spoke English.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
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Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2023
My parents spoke Ilocano and Spanish at home, but also spoke English.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
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“Ilocano.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ilocano. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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