Sir/Madam:
I wish to request for the inclusion of the Kapampangan language in the List of Wikipedias
preliminary to the creation of a Wikipedia for Kapampangan.
Kapampangan (ISO language code "pam"), described in
ethnologue.com as a
"language of wider communication," is the seventh largest of the eight major
languages of the Philippines. It is spoken by over two million people (as of the 2000
census) in the provinces of Pampanga (where it is the language of about 90% of the
population), Tarlac (about 40%), and adjoining areas of Bataan and Nueva Ecija. There are
substantial numbers of Kapampangans in other parts of the Philippines including
Metropolitan Manila, as well as in the United States, Canada and Australia.
Alternate names for Kapampangan listed by
ethnologue.com include Pampango, Pampangueño,
and Kapampangan. According to the same site,
its classification is: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Northern Philippine,
Bashiic-Central Luzon-Northern Mindoro, Central Luzon, Pampangan
Thank you!
Edwin
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