This are ibalois. An ethnic group of southern Benguet. Most Ibaloi people if not all, knew that pangasinan and ibaloi language are close. They actually have a joke that the ancestors of pangasinenses were ibalois who were drowned in agno river but has survived and found themmselves in the lower parts of Benguet. Their descendant became the Pangasinenses. In Linguistics, Pangasinense is the nearest to the Ibaloi language. Nearer than any of the languages of various ethnic groups in the cordilleras ( benguet or bontoc kankana-ey, ifugao, kalinga etc.)
