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Bontoc

Bontoc may refer to:

Philippines:

  • Bontoc, Mountain Province
  • Bontoc, Southern Leyte
  • Bontoc people, an ethnic group from Central Luzon, Philippines
  • Bontoc language, the languages spoken by the Bontoc people
  • Bontoc, one of the four subprovinces of the large Mountain Province until 1966. Upon becoming a full-fledged province, it adopted the name of its mother province. It is now the current Mountain Province.

Usage examples of "bontoc".

Now, having some Americans still in Bontoc, we live in peace--except for the weakness of the Governor, who is a Filipino.

Davao, 294 Bontoc tribe, 256, 257, 266-68 Bowers, Colonel, Philippines Constabulary, 194 Boynton, Dr.

A similar remark applies to Lepanto and Bontoc, likewise divisions of the Mountain Province, whose capitals, Cervantes and Bontoc, are indicated on the same map.

With such groups are also included the Bontocs, Kalingas, Ifugaos, Apayaos, Gad-dangs, Ilongots and others, to the number, roughly, of 450,000.