Magindanawn

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Magindanawn is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maguindanaon people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

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Label Occurrences
Magindanawn canonical 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Malayo-Polynesian language
Philippine language
belongsToEthnicGroup Maguindanaon people
closelyRelatedTo Iranun language
Maranao language
country Philippines
glottocode magu1242
hasAlternativeName Maguindanaon language
surface form: Magindanaon

Maguindanaon language
surface form: Maguindanao language

Maguindanaon
hasBasicWordOrder VOS
VSO
verb–initial
hasDialect Tau-sa Laya dialect
surface form: Tau-sa Ilud dialect

Tau-sa Laya dialect
hasGrammaticalFeature Austronesian alignment
focus/voice system
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Cebuano language
surface form: Cebuano

Malay
Tagalog
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
rich consonant inventory typical of Philippine languages
hasReligionAssociated Islam
hasWritingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
historicallyWrittenWith Jawi script
iso639-3Code mdh
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Philippine languages
region Cotabato
surface form: Cotabato Province

Davao Region
Maguindanao
surface form: Maguindanao del Norte

Maguindanao
surface form: Maguindanao del Sur

South Cotabato
surface form: South Cotabato Province

Sultan Kudarat Province
spokenBy Maguindanaon people
spokenIn Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
Mindanao
Philippines
subgroupOf Greater Central Philippine languages
usedAs vernacular language in Maguindanao region
usedIn Islamic religious practices in Mindanao
usedInEducation local schools in parts of Mindanao (as auxiliary language)
usedInMedia local radio in Maguindanao region
writingDirection left-to-right

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