Capiznon language

Capiznon
Native to	Philippines
Region	most parts of coastal Capiz, and some portions of Iloilo and Masbate
Native speakers	640,000  (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Visayan Central Visayan Capiznon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cps
Area where Capiznon is spoken

Capiznon (Spanish: capiceño^[2][3][4]) is an Austronesian language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines. Capiznon is concentrated in the province of Capiz in the northeast of Panay Island. It is a member of the Visayan language family and the people are part of the wider Visayan ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. The language is often confused with Hiligaynon due to dialectological comprehension similarities and as high as 91% mutual intelligibility,^[5] but it has its certain unique accent and vocabulary that integrates Aklanon and Waray lexicon.^[6] Despite its distinct corruption of Hiligaynon lateral approximants, a prevalent feature among rural farmers, ethnic convergence and cosmopolitanism has led to a shift back to the purely Hiligaynon prosodic form of slower tonality and softer and longer vowels most particularly among the younger generations.

Capiznon Speaking Municipalities

• Ivisan
• Panay
• Panitan
• Pilar
• Pontevedra
• President Roxas
• Sapi-an
• Sigma
• Tapaz

Iloilo

• Batad
• Carles
• Estancia
• Sara
• San Dionisio de Iloilo
• Balasan

Masbate

• Balud
• Mandaon

Common Lexical Differences between Capiznon and Hiligaynon Language

References

Capiznon language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

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