Karay-a

E675066

Karay-a is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Karay-a people in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines.

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Label Occurrences
Karay-a canonical 3

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
belongsTo Visayan subgroup of Philippine languages NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Capiznon NERFINISHED
Hiligaynon NERFINISHED
country Philippines
ethnicGroup Karay-a people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Antiqueño
Karay-a language NERFINISHED
Kinaray-a NERFINISHED
Kinaray-a language NERFINISHED
hasCulturalAssociation Karay-a oral epics and folk traditions
local festivals in Antique and neighboring provinces
hasDialects various local varieties within Antique and neighboring provinces
hasGlottocode kara1483
hasISO639-3Code krj
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Hiligaynon NERFINISHED
Kinaray-a varieties across Panay
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant clusters typical of Visayan languages
contrastive vowel length in some analyses
hasStatus regional language in the Philippines
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
Philippine
Visayan NERFINISHED
linguisticArea Western Visayan linguistic area NERFINISHED
region Panay Island NERFINISHED
spokenIn Aklan province NERFINISHED
Antique province NERFINISHED
Capiz province NERFINISHED
Iloilo province NERFINISHED
Negros Occidental NERFINISHED
Palawan NERFINISHED
Philippines
Western Visayas NERFINISHED
subclassOf Central Philippine language
typologicalFeature focus-based voice system
rich verbal morphology
verb–initial basic word order
usedBy Karay-a diaspora communities abroad
Karay-a diaspora communities in other parts of the Philippines
usedFor daily communication
folk songs
oral literature
storytelling
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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