Aklanon language

E182609

The Aklanon language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the province of Aklan in the Philippines, known for its distinctive phonology and membership in the Visayan (Bisayan) language family.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Aklanon language canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
Visayan language
natural language
alignmentType Austronesian alignment
basicWordOrder VOS
VSO
closelyRelatedTo Capiznon language
Hiligaynon language
Kinaray-a language
Romblomanon language
country Philippines
ethnicGroup Aklanon people
family Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
hasCaseMarkers yes
hasDialects yes
hasDistinctiveFeature contrast between /l/ and /r/
glottal stop phoneme
stress-based lexical contrast
unique phoneme represented by digraph "ea"
hasFocusSystem yes
languageCodeISO639-2 akl
languageCodeISO639-3 akl
lexifierInfluence English
surface form: English language

Spanish
surface form: Spanish language

Tagalog
surface form: Tagalog language
morphologicalType agglutinative
nativeSpeakers hundreds of thousands
partOf Visayan languages
surface form: Visayan (Bisayan) language family
primaryRegion Aklan
surface form: Aklan province
region Panay Island
Western Visayas
script Latin alphabet
spokenIn Aklan
surface form: Aklan, Philippines

Antique, Philippines
Capiz
surface form: Capiz, Philippines

Iloilo
surface form: Iloilo, Philippines

Migrant communities in Metro Manila
Overseas Filipino communities
status regional language in the Philippines
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Malayo-Polynesian
subgroup Greater Central Philippine languages
surface form: Central Philippine languages

Philippine subgroup
Visayan languages
usedFor daily communication
folk songs
local media
oral literature
religious activities
usesDiacritics yes
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Bisayan languages subgroup hasMember Aklanon language
Proto-Philippine language hasDescendant Aklanon language
Karay-a language closelyRelatedTo Aklanon language
Capiznon language closelyRelatedTo Aklanon language
Visayan languages hasLanguage Aklanon language