Danao group

E157635

The Danao group is a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the southern Philippines, including languages such as Maranao, Maguindanaon, and Iranun.

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Label Occurrences
Danao group canonical 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language subgroup
language group
associatedEthnicGroup Iranun people
Maguindanaon people
Maranao
surface form: Maranao people
classificationAuthority Malcolm Ross
Robert Blust
closelyRelatedTo Manobo languages
Subanen languages
glottologCode dana1259
hasAlternativeName Danao languages
Danao subgroup
hasFeature focus system
loanwords from Arabic
loanwords from Cebuano
loanwords from Malay
loanwords from Tagalog
phonemic vowel length in some members
rich verbal morphology
hasPart Iranun language
Maguindanaon language
Maranao language
historicalWritingSystem Arabic script
Jawi script
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
partOf Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Philippine languages
region North Cotabato
surface form: Cotabato region

Lanao del Sur
Maguindanao
surface form: Maguindanao province

Mindanao
spokenIn Mindanao
Philippines
southern Philippines
subclassOf Greater Central Philippine languages
typology Austronesian alignment
verb–initial word order
usedIn Islamic communities in Mindanao
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Subject: Danao group
Description of subject: The Danao group is a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the southern Philippines, including languages such as Maranao, Maguindanaon, and Iranun.

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Danao languages alsoKnownAs Danao group