Maguindanao language
Maguindanao | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Region | Southwest Mindanao |
Ethnicity | Maguindanao people |
Native speakers | 1.1 million (2010)[1] |
Latin; Historically Jawi | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Regional language in the Philippines |
Regulated by | Commission on the Filipino Language |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mdh |
Glottolog |
magu1243 [2] |
Area where Maguindanaoan is spoken |
Maguindanaon is an Austronesian language spoken by majority of the population of Maguindanao Province in the Philippines. It is also spoken by sizable minorities in different parts of Mindanao such as the cities of Zamboanga, Davao, and General Santos, and the provinces of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, as well as Metro Manila.
See also
References
- ↑ Maguindanao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maguindanao". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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