Maranaw

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Maranaw is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Maranaw canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
associatedReligion Islam NERFINISHED
centerOfUse Marawi City NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Iranun language NERFINISHED
Maguindanaon language NERFINISHED
country Philippines
ethnicGroup Maranao people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Maranao NERFINISHED
Meranao NERFINISHED
Mëranaw NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder VOS
VSO
hasGlottocode mara1400
hasISO639-2Code mrw
hasISO639-3Code mrw
hasLinguisticTypology Austronesian alignment
verb–initial word order
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
Cebuano NERFINISHED
English NERFINISHED
Malay
Tagalog NERFINISHED
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNotableEpic Darangen NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive /ph/ and /f/ in many modern varieties
distinctive vowel length
geminate consonants
hasScriptVariant Arabic-based script for Maranaw
hasStandardForm variety spoken around Marawi City
hasStatus regional language in the Philippines
isPartOf Philippine branch of Austronesian languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageGroup Greater Central Philippine languages NERFINISHED
languageOf Lanao Lake region NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
region Lanao del Norte NERFINISHED
Lanao del Sur NERFINISHED
southern Philippines
spokenBy Maranao people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mindanao NERFINISHED
Philippines
usedFor daily communication
oral literature
traditional epics
usedInEducation mother tongue-based multilingual education in parts of Mindanao
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Maranaw
Description of subject: Maranaw is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

Referenced by (1)

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