Maguindanao
Sign in to saveAlso known as Maguindanaon, Maguindanaoan, Maguindanao language
Austronesian language
Key facts
- Native to
- Philippines
- Region
- Maguindanao del Norte , Maguindanao del Sur , Sultan Kudarat , Cotabato , South Cotabato , Sarangani , Zamboanga del Sur , Zamboanga Sibugay , Davao del Sur , Davao del Norte , Davao Occidental , Bukidnon
- Ethnicity
- Maguindanaon
- Native speakers
- 2,021,099 (2020)
- Language family
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Danao Maguindanaon
- Dialects
- Biwangan Ilud Laya Sibugay Tagakawanan
- Writing system
- Latin , Arabic ( Jawi )
- Official language in
- Regional language in the Philippines
- Regulated by
- Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
- Iso 639 3
- mdh
- Glottolog
- magu1243
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Danao
- Country
- Philippines
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- writing system
- Latin script
- indigenous to
- Cotabato
- topic's main category
- Category:Maguindanao language
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1100000
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Encyclopedic overview
Maguindanaon (Basa Magindanawn, Jawi: باس مڬندنون), or Magindanawn is an Austronesian language spoken by Maguindanaon people who form majority of the population of eponymous provinces of Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur in the Philippines. It is also spoken by sizable minorities in different parts of Mindanao such as the cities of Zamboanga, Davao, General Santos, and Cagayan de Oro, and the provinces of Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, Davao del Sur, Davao Occidental, Bukidnon as well as Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Rizal and Laguna. As of 2020, the language is ranked to be the ninth leading language spoken at home in the Philippines with only 365,032 households still speaking the language.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maguindanao” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.