Davaoeño language

Davaoeño
Davawenyo
Native to Philippines
Region Davao Region, Mindanao
Native speakers
(150,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 daw
Glottolog dava1245[2]

Davaoeño (Davawenyo) is the principal language of the Davaoeño people in the Davao Region of Mindanao in the Philippines. According to Ethnologue, it is a "synthesis" of Tagalog, Cebuano, and other Visayan languages.

References

  1. Davaoeño at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Davawenyo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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