Aklanon language

E182609

The Aklanon language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the province of Aklan in the Philippines, known for its distinctive phonology and membership in the Visayan (Bisayan) language family.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Aklanon language canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
Visayan language
natural language
alignmentType Austronesian alignment
basicWordOrder VOS
VSO
closelyRelatedTo Capiznon language
Hiligaynon language
Kinaray-a language
Romblomanon language
country Philippines
ethnicGroup Aklanon people
family Austronesian
hasCaseMarkers yes
hasDialects yes
hasDistinctiveFeature contrast between /l/ and /r/
glottal stop phoneme
stress-based lexical contrast
unique phoneme represented by digraph "ea"
hasFocusSystem yes
languageCodeISO639-2 akl
languageCodeISO639-3 akl
lexifierInfluence English language
linked to: English

Spanish language
linked to: Spanish

Tagalog language
linked to: Tagalog
morphologicalType agglutinative
nativeSpeakers hundreds of thousands
partOf Visayan (Bisayan) language family
linked to: Visayan languages
primaryRegion Aklan province
linked to: Aklan
region Panay Island
Western Visayas
script Latin alphabet
spokenIn Aklan, Philippines
linked to: Aklan

Antique, Philippines
Capiz, Philippines
linked to: Capiz

Iloilo, Philippines
linked to: Iloilo

Migrant communities in Metro Manila
Overseas Filipino communities
status regional language in the Philippines
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian
subgroup Central Philippine languages
Philippine subgroup
Visayan languages
usedFor daily communication
folk songs
local media
oral literature
religious activities
usesDiacritics yes
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Bisayan languages subgroup hasMember Aklanon language
Proto-Philippine language hasDescendant Aklanon language
Karay-a language closelyRelatedTo Aklanon language
Capiznon language closelyRelatedTo Aklanon language
Visayan languages hasLanguage Aklanon language