Masbateño language

E593102

Masbateño is a Central Philippine language spoken primarily on Masbate Island in the Philippines, descended from the ancestral Proto-Philippine language.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Masbateño language canonical 5
Masbate Masbate dialect 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Central Philippine language
ancestor Proto-Philippine language
closelyRelatedTo Bikol language
Cebuano language
Hiligaynon language
Waray language
country Philippines
developedFrom Proto-Philippine language
hasAlternativeName Masbatenyo
Masbateño
Minasbate
hasBasicWordOrder verb–initial
hasDialects Masbate Burias dialect
Masbate Masbate dialect
linked to: Masbateño language

Masbate Sorsogon dialect
hasFeature focus/voice system typical of Philippine languages
hasGlottocode masb1237
hasISO6393Code msb
hasLinguisticFeature Austronesian alignment
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
typical Philippine-type consonant inventory
hasStatus regional language in the Philippines
isSpokenBy hundreds of thousands of speakers
native speakers on Masbate Island
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Philippine languages
morphologicalType agglutinative language
partOf Visayan subgroup of Philippine languages
region Central Philippines
sharesLexiconWith Bikol language
Cebuano language
Hiligaynon language
Tagalog language
linked to: Tagalog
spokenIn Bicol Region
Masbate Island
Masbate Province
Philippines
subclassOf Visayan language
linked to: Visayan languages
usedByEthnicGroup Masbateño people
uses affixation for grammatical relations
usesAlphabet Filipino alphabet
wordOrder VOS
VSO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (6)

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

Proto-Philippine language hasDescendant Masbateño language
Visayan languages hasLanguage Masbateño language
Central Philippines language Masbateño language
Masbateño people language Masbateño language
Masbateño language hasDialects Masbate Masbate dialect
linked to: Masbateño language
Masbate Province hasLanguage Masbateño language