Balangao is a term that refers to both the barangay

Barangay

A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...

 in the Natonin, Mountain Province

Natonin, Mountain Province

Natonin is a 4th class municipality in the province of Mountain Province, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 9,431 people in 1,768 households.-Barangays:Natonin is politically subdivided into 11 barangays...

, Philippines

Philippines

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 as well as the tribe

Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term tribal society to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups .Some theorists...

 that inhabits it.

Balangao tribe

The Balangao tribe, focuses primarily on farming; which is performed either in rice terraces or from lands that were cleared by fire. At the present, many of the younger generation of the tribe have gained education and are exposed to modernization thus changing the once traditional society of the tribe. The farangao language is used by the Balangao tribe and is confined to the tribe and other nearby tribes who have their own languages related to the farangao dialect

Dialect

The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...

. These dialect most heard in Natonin Mountain Province.