Kankana-ey

E578975

Kankana-ey is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kankanaey people of the northern Philippines, particularly in the Cordillera region of Luzon.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kankana-ey canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language ⓘ
Philippine language ⓘ
language ⓘ
belongsTo Cordilleran languages ⓘ
country Philippines ⓘ
culturalRole marker of Kankanaey ethnic identity ⓘ
ethnicGroupAssociated Kankanaey people ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Kankanaey ⓘ
Kankanai ⓘ
linked to: Kankanay

Kankanaí ⓘ
hasDialect Northern Kankanaey ⓘ
linked to: Kankanaey

Southern Kankanaey ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature focus/voice system typical of Philippine languages ⓘ
verb-initial basic word order tendencies ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive stress ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasStatus regional language in the Philippines ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet
ISO639-3Code kne ⓘ
isSubjectOf linguistic documentation projects in the Philippines ⓘ
isUsedAlongside English ⓘ
Filipino ⓘ
languageFamily Austronesian languages ⓘ
macrolanguageGrouping Kankanay languages ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Ibaloy ⓘ
Ifugao languages ⓘ
Ilocano ⓘ
primaryRegion Abra ⓘ
Benguet ⓘ
Ilocos Sur ⓘ
La Union ⓘ
Mountain Province ⓘ
region northern Philippines ⓘ
spokenBy Kankanaey people ⓘ
spokenIn Cordillera Administrative Region ⓘ
Luzon ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
Northern Luzon languages ⓘ
Southern Cordilleran languages ⓘ
usedByReligion Christian communities in the Cordillera region ⓘ
usedIn daily communication ⓘ
local education ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
writingDirection left-to-right ⓘ

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