Introduction

 

The Bolinao language is spoken by over 45,000 people living on the northwestern tip of the province of Pangasinan, Luzon, Philippines. The Bolinao people are eager to make progress through education and are a hospitable, hardworking and fun-loving people. There are over 20,000 words that have been collected over a period of over 35 years. There is still much work to do, but we, the compilers have decided to publish this work-in-progress, in order to document the work we have done so far.

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