Meranao language

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

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Meranao language canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
associatedWithEthnicGroup Maranao people NERFINISHED
associatedWithReligion Islam NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Iranun language NERFINISHED
Maguindanaon language NERFINISHED
country Philippines
glottologName Maranao NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Maranao language NERFINISHED
Maranaw language NERFINISHED
Mëranaw language
hasEthnologueCode mrw
hasFeature rich oral literature
hasGlottocode mara1402
hasLinguisticTypology verb–initial word order tendency
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
Malay NERFINISHED
Spanish NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNotableWork Darangen NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich vowel system
hasStandardForm variety based in Marawi area
hasWritingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
ISO639-3Code mrw
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Greater Central Philippine languages NERFINISHED
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
partOf Mindanao linguistic area NERFINISHED
region southern Philippines
scriptDirection left-to-right (Latin script)
right-to-left (Arabic script)
spokenBy Maranao people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Lanao del Norte NERFINISHED
Lanao del Sur NERFINISHED
Mindanao NERFINISHED
Philippines
subclassOf Greater Central Philippine language
usedFor daily communication among Maranao people
epic chanting
traditional poetry
usedIn Islamic cultural contexts
Islamic religious contexts
oral literature
usedInEducation mother tongue-based education in parts of Mindanao

How these facts were elicited

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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: Meranao language
Description of subject: Meranao language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, known for its rich oral literature 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 Meranao language