Yakan language
| Yakan | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Basilan |
| Ethnicity |
Yakan people Filipinos in Malaysia |
Native speakers | (110,000 cited 1990 census)[1] |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Regional language in the Philippines |
| Regulated by | Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
yka |
| Glottolog |
yaka1277[2] |
|
Area where Yakan is spoken | |
Yakan is a Sama–Bajaw language of Basilan Island in the Philippines. It is the native language of Yakan people, the indigenous as well as the largest ethnic group in the island. It has a total of 110,000 native speakers. Despite being located in the Philippines, it is not closely related to other Philippine languages but more closely related to Sama-Bajaw languages and possibly Barito languages in Indonesian Borneo and those in Madagascar and Mayotte.
References
- ↑ Yakan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yakan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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