Butuanon language
Butuanon | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Native speakers | (35,000 cited 1990 census)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
btw |
Glottolog |
butu1244 [2] |
Butuanon is an Austronesian regional language spoken in Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur, with some native speakers in Misamis Oriental and Surigao del Norte. It is a part of the Visayan language family and is closely related to other Philippine languages. As of 2007, Butuanon is spoken by fewer than 500 youngsters in Butuan itself.[3]
Butuanon is very closely related to the Tausug language of distant Sulu and the Surigaonon language of neighboring provinces Surigao del Sur and Surigao del Norte.
References
- ↑ Butuanon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Butuanon". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Fred S. Cabuang (September 6, 2007). "Saving Butuanon language". Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
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