Romblomanon language

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Romblomanon language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Romblon and nearby areas in the central Philippines.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Romblomanon language canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Central Philippine language
Philippine language
alternativeName Basi
Ini
Romblomanon
surface form: Romblomanon Bisaya

Romblon Bisaya
belongsTo Visayan languages
closelyRelatedTo Capiznon language
Hiligaynon language
Kinaray-a language
country Philippines
ethnologueEntry Romblomanon
hasAlignmentType Austronesian alignment
hasGlottologCode romb1241
hasGlottologName Romblomanon
hasGrammaticalFeature focus-based voice system
preposed markers for case and definiteness
use of verbal affixes to mark focus and aspect
hasISO639-3Code rol
hasMajorDialect Romblon dialect
Sibuyan dialect
Tablas dialect
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (limited)
rich consonant inventory typical of Central Philippine languages
hasStatus regional language in the Philippines
hasWordOrder SVO
VOS
VSO
isMinorityLanguageIn Philippines
isPartOf Philippine linguistic area
surface form: Austronesian linguistic area of the Philippines
isSpokenBy Romblomanon people
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Greater Central Philippine languages
surface form: Central Philippine languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
lexicallySimilarTo Capiznon language
Hiligaynon language
Kinaray-a language
region Central Philippines
spokenIn Philippines
Romblon Island
Romblon
surface form: Romblon province

Sibuyan Island
Tablas Island
usedAlongside English language
Tagalog
surface form: Filipino language
usedFor everyday communication in Romblon province
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (4)

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

Bisayan languages subgroup hasMember Romblomanon language
Proto-Philippine language hasDescendant Romblomanon language
Aklanon language closelyRelatedTo Romblomanon language
Visayan languages hasLanguage Romblomanon language