Maranao language

E174994

Austronesian language Malayo-Polynesian language Philippine language

The Maranao language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Maranao people around Lake Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Maranao language canonical	11
Maranaw language	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austronesian language ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ
belongsTo	Greater Central Philippine languages ⓘ surface form: Central Philippine languages
closelyRelatedTo	Iranun language ⓘ Maguindanaon language ⓘ
country	Philippines ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Maranao ⓘ surface form: Maranao people
hasAlternativeName	Maranao language ⓘ surface form: Maranaw language Meranao language ⓘ Mëranaw language ⓘ
hasApproximateSpeakers	1000000 ⓘ
hasDialects	varieties around Lake Lanao ⓘ
hasGlottocode	mara1402 ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom	Arabic ⓘ Cebuano language ⓘ surface form: Cebuano Malay ⓘ Tagalog ⓘ
hasMorphology	Austronesian alignment system ⓘ
hasNativeName	Maranaw ⓘ Meranaw ⓘ Mëranaw ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	distinctive vowel raising ⓘ geminate consonants ⓘ stress accent ⓘ
hasWordOrder	verb–initial ⓘ
ISO639-2	mrw ⓘ
ISO639-3	mrw ⓘ
isSubjectOf	linguistic studies on Philippine languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Austronesian languages ⓘ Greater Central Philippine languages ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
partOf	Moro languages ⓘ
region	Lanao del Sur ⓘ surface form: Lanao region Mindanao ⓘ
script	Arabic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Arabic script Batang Arab script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ
spokenAround	Lake Lanao ⓘ
spokenBy	Muslim population of Lanao del Sur ⓘ
spokenIn	Lanao del Sur ⓘ Mindanao ⓘ Philippines ⓘ
status	regional language in the Philippines ⓘ
usedBy	Maranao diaspora communities abroad ⓘ Maranao diaspora communities in the Philippines ⓘ
usedIn	Darangen epic ⓘ Islamic religious education in Lanao ⓘ oral literature of the Maranao people ⓘ
writingSystem	Arabic-based script ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Maranao language
Description of subject: The Maranao language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Maranao people around Lake Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines.

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southern Philippine languages subgroup → hasMember → Maranao language ⓘ

Danao languages → hasPart → Maranao language ⓘ

Danao languages → majorLanguage → Maranao language ⓘ

Maranao → language → Maranao language ⓘ

Magindanawn → closelyRelatedTo → Maranao language ⓘ

Proto-Philippine language → hasDescendant → Maranao language ⓘ

Iranun language → closelyRelatedTo → Maranao language ⓘ

Iranun language → lexicalSimilarityWith → Maranao language ⓘ

Danao group → hasPart → Maranao language ⓘ

Maguindanaon language → closelyRelatedTo → Maranao language ⓘ

Maranao language → hasAlternativeName → Maranao language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maranaw language

Moro people → majorLanguage → Maranao language ⓘ