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| footnotes = }} Bontoc (Ilocano: ''Ili ti Bontoc''), (Pangasinan: ''Baley na Bontoc''), (Tagalog: ''Bayan ng Bontoc'') is a second class municipality and the capital of Mountain Province, Philippines. Bontoc is the historical capital of the entire Cordillera region since the inception of governance in the Cordillera. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 23,980 people.〔 The municipality celebrates annual Lang-ay Festival. Bontoc is home to the Bontoc Tribe, a feared war-like group of indigenous people who actively indulged in tribal wars with its neighbours up until the 1930s. Every Bontoc male had to undergo a rites of passage into manhood, which may include head hunting, where the male has to journey (Sometimes with companions) and hunt for a human head. The Bontocs also used the jaw of the hunted head as a handle for its gongs, and as late as the early 1990s, evidence of this practice can be seen from one of the gongs in Pukisan, Bontoc. This is the home of the ''Ifuntok'' Language, which has variable dialects under it. However, the Original ''Ifuntok'' Language is fast dying out, as more of the younger generations speak a mixture of ''Ilocano'', ''Tagalog'', and ''Kankanaey'' Dialects. This is partly due to the frequent contact of the younger generations with other regions of the Philippine nation. Some words are not in use anymore. Within the Bontoc proper, only 40% of the local population can communicate using this language without diluting their daily language with other languages/dialects. ==Barangays== Bontoc is politically subdivided into 16 barangays.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bontoc, Mountain Province」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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