Masbatenyo

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Masbatenyo is a Central Philippine language spoken primarily on Masbate Island in the Philippines, closely related to Hiligaynon and Cebuano.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Masbatenyo canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Central Philippine language
alsoKnownAs Masbateño
Minasbate
belongsTo Central Visayan subgroup
linked to: Central Philippine
closelyRelatedTo Cebuano
linked to: Cebuano language

Hiligaynon
linked to: Hiligaynon language
country Philippines
hasConsonantInventory similar to other Visayan languages
hasDialect Masbate City variety
northern Masbate variety
southern Masbate variety
hasFeature Austronesian alignment
focus system
verb affixation
hasLoanwordsFrom English
Spanish
Tagalog
hasPhonology five-vowel system
influencedBy Bikol
linked to: Bikol language

Cebuano
linked to: Cebuano language

Hiligaynon
linked to: Hiligaynon language

Tagalog
ISO639-3 msb
languageBranch Malayo-Polynesian
languageFamily Austronesian
languageGroup Central Philippine
neighboringLanguage Bikol
linked to: Bikol language

Tagalog
partOf Visayan language continuum
primaryIsland Masbate
region Bicol Region
spokenIn Masbate Island
Masbate Province
Philippines
status regional language in the Philippines
subfamilyOf Visayan languages
typology agglutinative language
usedBy Masbateño people
usedFor daily communication
usedIn informal education in Masbate
local media in Masbate
wordOrder VOS
VSO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Masbateño hasAlternativeName Masbatenyo
Masbateño people hasEndonym Masbatenyo