Yakan language
| Yakan | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Basilan |
| Ethnicity |
Yakan people Filipinos in Malaysia |
Native speakers | (110,000 cited 1990 census)[1] |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Regional language in the Philippines |
| Regulated by | Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
yka |
| Glottolog |
yaka1277[2] |
 Area where Yakan is spoken | |
Yakan is a language of Basilan Island in the Philippines. It is the native language of Yakan people, the indigenous as well as the largest ethnic group on the island. It has a total of 110,000 native speakers. Despite being located in the Philippines, it is not closely related to other Philippine languages but more closely related to Malaysian languages and possibly Barito languages in Indonesian Borneo and those in Madagascar and Mayotte.
References
- ↑ Yakan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yakan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Brainard, Sherri; Behrens, Dietlinde (2002). A Grammar of Yakan. Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines. Grammar description accessible via Rosetta Project
External links
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