Also known as the Ilongot, the Bugkalot Indigenous Peoples in the southern Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountains, on the east side of Luzon Island in the Philippines. Presently, there are about 2,500 Bugkalots. However, the their language, the Ilongot language, is spoken by roughly 50,000 people.
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