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Kagayanen

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3: cgc

Population	30,000 (2007 SIL), increasing. Few monolinguals. Ethnic population: 25,000.
Region	Palawan Province, Cagayan Island, between Negros and Palawan; Palawan coastal communities; south Palawan, Balabac island, Quezon and Rizal communities; north Palawan, Busuanga region, Coron Municipality. Subgroupings in Iloilo Province, Silay, Negros, and Manila.
Language maps	Southern Philippines, reference number 108 Southern Philippines, reference number 108
Alternate names	Cagayano, Kagay-anen, Kinagayanen
Dialects	Calamian Kagayanen.
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Greater Central Philippine, Manobo, North
Language use	All domains. Some oral use in local administration, commerce, religion, some schools. Letters, oral literature. Positive attitude. Shifting from Hiligaynon [hil] to Filipino [fil]. Most also use English, Cuyonon [cyo], or 1 or more Visayan languages.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 85%. Literacy rate in L2: 75% Hiligaynon, Filipino, Cuyunon, Kinaray-a, Cebuano. Taught in primary and secondary schools. NT: 2007.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	A growing number moving to cities for economic improvement, education. Agriculturalists; fishermen; seaweed farmers. Christian, traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Lieffers, Jean, editor; Austina McFarland and Mafe Quimba, compilers. 2003. Twelve stories for twelve stamps & words of wisdom : a cultural anthology of traditional literature from the Philippines.

MacGregor, Louise A. 1995. "Kagayanen: introduction and wordlist."

MacGregor, Louise and Carol Jean Pebley. 1999. "Two Kagayanen texts."

Olson, Kenneth S. and Jeff Mielke. 2007. "Acoustic properties of the Kagayanen vowel space."  

Pebley, Carol Jean and Sherri Brainard. 1999. "The functions of fronted noun phrases in Kagayanen expository discourse."

Pebley, Carol Jean. 1998. "Semantic intransitivity, causation and the affix ‘m-’ in Kagayanen."

Pebley, Carol Jean. 1999. "A sketch of Kagayanen clause structures."

Pebley, Carol Jean. 1999. "Kagayanen enclitic demonstratives ’i’, ’an’, and ’ya’."

Pebley, Carol Jean. 1999. "Participant reference in Kagayanen."

Vernacular Publications

Bukabularyo ta tallo na ambal: Inglis, Pilipino daw Kagayanen (Pinagbukud-bukod na bukabularyo: Inglis, Pilipino atsaka Kagayanen; A classified vocabulary: English, Pilipino, Kagayanen). 1979.

Mga andemanan na mga isturya. 1995.

Mga pangadlaw-adlaw na ambalen (Everyday conversation: a phrase book for Kagayanen). 1978.

Mga pangadlaw-adlaw na ambalen. 1989.

Paagi ya ta may pamilya na biskeg na panlawaen. 1982.

Paagi ya ta pagsulat ta Kagayanen. 1982.