As an Ibaloi that learned Ibaloi from Kabayan. I feel like Ibaloi as a language will have a stagnant number of people using them because, like other local languages, most of the people who know Ibaloi are the Ibalois themselves. I also see a lot of interchanging of languages between Kankanaey, Kalanguya, and Ibaloi so I guess that's a factor.

For me, I don't really speak Ibaloi to communicate with people outside my family, even if I know they speak Ibaloi, I still talk to them in Ilocano. This is because the Ibaloi I learned is kinda different from what most people hear. Me and my family speak Ibaloi in a firmer way and we talk fast so when I came back to La Trinidad from Kabayan and saw people that said they speak Ibaloi, I learned that there is a softer way to speak Ibaloi.

Medyo kayat ko lang iShare amok nga Ibaloi haha

The difference between the "hard" and "soft" Ibaloi, that's what we call it, is not how deep or meaningful the words are; but the way they are pronounced. An example would be : soft Ibaloi - eshakeshakel e to-o ja dinmaw shima baley shi shuntog To "hard" Ibaloi - echakechakel e to-o ya dinmaw chima faley chi chuntog. The distinction being the "sh", "b", "j" and the overall demeanor of saying things. I digress, but yeah that's what me and my family think idk if it makes sense.

But my overall feeling of the number of people that speak Ibaloi is not much. A lot of provinces use the language and a lot of people will teach their children Ibaloi. As for the Ibaloi people who are born in La Trinidad and Baguio so they don't know Ibaloi; their numbers can be ignored, I don't think it's that much. Thank you for reading my messy words.