Kalinga (IPA: [ka'liŋɡa]) is a dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Kalinga people, alongside Ilocano. The Banao Itneg variety is not one of the neighboring Itneg languages.

Ronald Himes (1997) divides Kalinga into three dialects: Masadiit (in Abra), Northern Kalinga, and South-Central Kalinga.

Ethnologue reports the following locations for each of the eight Kalinga languages it identifies. Banao Itneg is classified by Ethnologue as Kalinga rather than Itneg.

/a/ can also have an allophone of [ə].

A hyphen is used for a glottal stop after a consonant, as in man-achug 'to guard'; an acute accent for a 'double' glottal stop between vowels, as in guàɏon 'to chew'; elsewhere it is not marked. An acute accent may be used on a stressed vowel to distinguish words, such as chílu 'honey' vs chilú 'dew', but otherwise stress is not usually marked. R occurs in foreign loans; it is usually replaced by L or Ɏ. Ɏ is evidently something like Y ([j]), but with the tongue further forward, and may be pronounced with the tip of the tongue behind the lower teeth or lip.