Masbatenyo

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Masbatenyo is a Central Philippine language spoken primarily on Masbate Island in the Philippines, closely related to Hiligaynon and Cebuano.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Masbatenyo canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Central Philippine language
alsoKnownAs Masbateño
Minasbate NERFINISHED
belongsTo Central Visayan subgroup NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Cebuano NERFINISHED
Hiligaynon NERFINISHED
country Philippines
hasConsonantInventory similar to other Visayan languages
hasDialect Masbate City variety
northern Masbate variety
southern Masbate variety
hasFeature Austronesian alignment
focus system
verb affixation
hasLoanwordsFrom English NERFINISHED
Spanish NERFINISHED
Tagalog NERFINISHED
hasPhonology five-vowel system
influencedBy Bikol NERFINISHED
Cebuano NERFINISHED
Hiligaynon NERFINISHED
Tagalog NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 msb
languageBranch Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageGroup Central Philippine
neighboringLanguage Bikol NERFINISHED
Tagalog NERFINISHED
partOf Visayan language continuum
primaryIsland Masbate NERFINISHED
region Bicol Region NERFINISHED
spokenIn Masbate Island NERFINISHED
Masbate Province NERFINISHED
Philippines
status regional language in the Philippines
subfamilyOf Visayan languages NERFINISHED
typology agglutinative language
usedBy Masbateño people
usedFor daily communication
usedIn informal education in Masbate
local media in Masbate
wordOrder VOS
VSO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Masbateño hasAlternativeName Masbatenyo