Ilonggo

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Ilonggo is a major Austronesian language spoken primarily in Western Visayas and parts of Mindanao in the Philippines.

Aliases (2)

Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
natural language
alternativeName Hiligaynon language
surface form: "Hiligaynon"
closelyRelatedTo Capiznon
Cebuano language
surface form: "Cebuano"

Kinaray-a
countryOfficialStatus recognized regional language in the Philippines
hasDialect Hiligaynon language
surface form: "Rural Hiligaynon"

Urban Hiligaynon
hasGrammaticalFeature Austronesian alignment
focus system
rich verbal affixation
verb–initial word order
hasISO639-2Code hil
hasISO639-3Code hil
hasLoanwordsFrom English
Spanish
Tagalog
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive stress
simple vowel system
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: "Austronesian"
primaryCountry Philippines
region Mindanao
Visayas
regulatedBy Surian ng Wikang Pambansa
surface form: "Commission on the Filipino Language"
spokenIn Capiz
Guimaras
Iloilo province
surface form: "Iloilo Province"

Negros Occidental
North Cotabato
Philippines
South Cotabato
Sultan Kudarat
Western Visayas
parts of Mindanao
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: "Malayo-Polynesian"

Philippine subgroup
usedAs home language by many speakers in Negros Occidental
regional lingua franca in Western Visayas
usedByEthnicGroup Hiligaynon people
Ilonggo people
usedIn informal education in communities
local media in Western Visayas
radio broadcasting in Iloilo
religious services in Western Visayas
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: "Latin script"

Referenced by (5)

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

this entity surface form: "Kinaray-a"
Visayas language Ilonggo
this entity surface form: "Kinaray-a"
Mindanao languageSpoken Ilonggo
this entity surface form: "Surigaonon"

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