Cuyonon language

E179459

Cuyonon is an Austronesian language of the Central Philippine (Bisayan) group, traditionally spoken by the Cuyonon people of the Cuyo Islands and parts of Palawan in the Philippines.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Cuyonon language canonical 7
Kuyonon language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Bisayan language
Central Philippine language
Philippine language
belongsToMacroarea Papunesia
closelyRelatedTo Hiligaynon language
Kinaray-a language
Cuyonon language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kuyonon language
country Philippines
ethnicGroup Cuyonon people
hasAlternativeName Cuyonon
surface form: Cuyono

Cuyoño
Kuyonon
hasDialects Cuyo dialect
Northern Palawan dialects
Taytay dialect
hasGlottocode cuyo1237
hasMorphologicalFeature Austronesian voice system
focus-marking verbal affixes
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between short and long vowels
five-vowel system
stress-based accent
hasSyntacticFeature VSO basic word order
use of prepositions
verb–initial word order
influencedBy English language
Hiligaynon language
Spanish
surface form: Spanish language

Tagalog
surface form: Tagalog language
ISO639-3Code cyo
languageBranch Philippine languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Greater Central Philippine languages
surface form: Central Philippine languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
languageSubgroup Bisayan languages
lexifierFor Cuyonon-based creole varieties in Palawan
primaryRegion Cuyo Islands
northern Palawan
region Mimaropa
Western Visayas
surface form: Western Visayas diaspora
spokenIn Cuyo Islands
Palawan
Philippines
status regional language in the Philippines
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
head-initial syntax
usedAs lingua franca in parts of Palawan
usesAlphabet Latin alphabet
surface form: Roman alphabet
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (8)

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

Bisayan languages subgroup hasMember Cuyonon language
Proto-Philippine language hasDescendant Cuyonon language
Palawano languages relatedTo Cuyonon language
Palawano languages neighboringLanguages Cuyonon language
Cuyonon language closelyRelatedTo Cuyonon language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kuyonon language
Visayan languages hasLanguage Cuyonon language
Cuyo Islands languageSpoken Cuyonon language