Igorot people
Cordilleran (Igorot) dancers in traditional attire performing a cultural dance with gangsa (gongs). | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,854,556 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Philippines (Cordillera Administrative Region, Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley) | |
| Languages | |
| Bontoc, Ilocano, Itneg, Ibaloi, Isnag, Kankanaey, Bugkalot, Kalanguya, Isinai, Filipino, English | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism), Animism (Indigenous Philippine folk religions) |
The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera in northern Luzon, Philippines, often referred to by the exonym Igorot people, or more recently, as the Cordilleran peoples, are an ethnic group composed of nine main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains are in the Cordillera Mountain Range, altogether numbering about 1.8 million people in the early 21st century.
Their languages belong to the northern Luzon subgroup of Philippine languages, which in turn belongs to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family. A 2014 genetic study has found that the Kan-Kankanaey (an Igorot subgroup from the Mountain Province of the Northern Philippines), and by extension other indigenous Cordillera groups, descend almost entirely from the ancient Austronesian expansion originating in Taiwan around 3000-2000 BCE