Mëranaw language

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The Mëranaw language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, known for its rich oral tradition and use in Islamic cultural and religious contexts.

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Label Occurrences
Mëranaw language canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
closelyRelatedTo Iranun language NERFINISHED
Maguindanaon language
country Philippines
hasAlternativeName Maranao language NERFINISHED
Maranaw language NERFINISHED
Meranao language NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder verb–subject–object
hasEthnologueEntry Maranao NERFINISHED
hasFeature rich oral tradition
hasGlottocode mara1402
hasISO639-3Code mrw
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
English NERFINISHED
Malay NERFINISHED
Spanish NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive stress
distinctive vowel length
historicalWritingSystem Arabic script
Batang Arab script NERFINISHED
isMinorityLanguageIn Philippines NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Greater Central Philippine languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
primaryReligionOfSpeakers Islam NERFINISHED
recognizedBy Commission on the Filipino Language NERFINISHED
region Lake Lanao region NERFINISHED
southern Philippines
spokenBy Maranao people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Lanao del Norte NERFINISHED
Lanao del Sur NERFINISHED
Mindanao NERFINISHED
Philippines
subgroupOf Danao languages
usedBy ulama in Lanao region
usedFor Islamic sermons
Qurʼanic exegesis explanations
folktales
traditional poetry
usedIn Darangen epic NERFINISHED
Islamic education
Islamic religious contexts
Maranao oral literature
usedInEducation mother tongue-based multilingual education in the Philippines
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Input
Subject: Mëranaw language
Description of subject: The Mëranaw language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, known for its rich oral tradition and use in Islamic cultural and religious contexts.

Referenced by (1)

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

Maranao language hasAlternativeName Mëranaw language