Lineyte-Samarnon

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Lineyte-Samarnon is an alternative name for the Waray language, an Austronesian language spoken in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lineyte-Samarnon canonical 2
Samarnon 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
alternativeNameOf Waray language
altName Lineyte-Samarnon
surface form: Samarnon

Waray
Waray language
surface form: Waray-Waray

Winaray
closelyRelatedTo Cebuano language
Hiligaynon language
hasCountry Philippines
hasGlottocode wara1300
hasISO639-2Code war
hasISO639-3Code war
hasMajorDialect Waray of Samar
surface form: Waray of Leyte

Waray of Samar
hasOfficialStatus regional language in the Philippines
hasPhonologicalFeature Austronesian-type phoneme inventory
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
primaryWordOrder verb–subject–object
spokenInCity Calbayog
Tacloban
spokenInCountry Philippines
spokenInProvince Biliran
Eastern Samar
Leyte
Northern Samar
Samar Province
surface form: Samar
spokenInRegion Eastern Visayas
Eastern Visayas
surface form: Region VIII (Eastern Visayas)
spokenOnIsland Leyte
Samar Island
surface form: Samar
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
Philippine languages
usedIn local literature in Eastern Visayas
local media in Eastern Visayas
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Waray language alternativeName Lineyte-Samarnon
Winaray altName Lineyte-Samarnon
this entity surface form: Samarnon
Winaray altName Lineyte-Samarnon
Lineyte-Samarnon altName Lineyte-Samarnon
this entity surface form: Samarnon