Maranao language

Maranao
Mëranaw
Native to Philippines
Region Central Mindanao
Ethnicity Maranao people
Native speakers
 unknown (780,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Latin;
Historically written in Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mrw
Glottolog mara1404[2]

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Area where Maranao is spoken

Maranao (Maranao [ˈmәranaw] Mëranaw)[3] is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people in the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur in the Philippines, and in Sabah, Malaysia.

Iranun was once considered a dialect.

Phonology

Below is the sound system of Maranao including underlying phonetic features.[4]

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close ɪ u
Mid ə o
Open a

Consonants

Bilabial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive Voiceless ʔ
Voiced b d ɡ
Fricative (h)
Flap ɾ
Lateral l
Approximant w j

Velar fricative [h]

According to Lobel (2013), [h] only occurs in a select number of Malay loanwords:

Consonant elongation

Consonants are also pronounced longer if preceded with a schwa ə. However, this process is not a form of gemination since consonant elongation in Mëranao is not distinctive as seen in other Philippine languages such as Ilokano and Ibanag. Some of these are:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Maranao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maranao". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ http://www.kwf.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/Ortograpiyang-Pambansa1.pdf
  4. ↑ Lobel, Jason William. 2013. Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

External links

Maranao language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator