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Kagayanen language

Kagayanen
Native to Philippines
Region eastern Palawan
Native speakers
30,000 (2007)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog kaga1256
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The Kagayanen language is spoken in the province of Palawan in the Philippines.

Kagayanen is spoken in the following areas (Ethnologue).

[h] occurs only in loan words, proper names, or in words that have [h] in the cognates of neighboring languages. Outside of loanwords, /d/ becomes [r] between vowels.

Comparative and historical evidence suggests that /ð̞/ and /l/ were in complementary distribution before a split occurred with pressure from contact with English, Spanish, and Tagalog.

/i/ ranges between [i] and [e], except in unstressed syllables (as well as before consonant clusters) where it lowers to [ɪ] or [ɛ]. Similarly, /u/ lowers to [ʊ] in unstressed syllables, before consonant clusters, and word-finally. It is otherwise [u].


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