| Aklanon | |
| Also Known As: | Aklan |
| Nativename: | Akeanon Binisaya nga Akeanon Inakeanon |
| States: | Philippines |
| Region: | Aklan, northwestern Capiz, northern Antique, and southern Romblon |
| Ethnicity: | Aklanon |
| Speakers: | 560,000 |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Refname: | Inakeanon |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Philippine |
| Fam4: | Central Philippine |
| Fam5: | Bisayan |
| Fam6: | Western Bisayan |
| Script: | Latin
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| Dia1: | Aklanon, Malaynon |
| Nation: | Regional language in the Philippines |
| Agency: | Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino |
| Lc1: | akl |
| Ld1: | Aklanon [2] |
| Lc2: | mlz |
| Ld2: | Malaynon |
| Glotto: | akla1240 |
| Glottoname: | Aklanon |
| Map: | Aklanon language map.png |
| Mapcaption: | Area where Aklanon is spoken |
Aklanon (Akeanon), also known as Bisaya/Binisaya nga Aklanon/Inaklanon or simply Aklan, is an Austronesian language of the Bisayan subgroup spoken by the Aklanon people in the province of Aklan on the island of Panay in the Philippines. Its unique feature among other Bisayan languages is the close-mid back unrounded vowel pronounced as /[ɤ]/ occurring as part of diphthongs and traditionally written with the letter such as in the autonyms Akean and Akeanon. However, this phoneme is also present in other but geographically scattered and distant Philippine languages, namely Itbayat, Isneg, Manobo, Samal and Sagada.[3]
The Malaynon dialect is 93% lexically similar to Aklanon and has retained the "l" sounds, which elsewhere are often pronounced as "r".[4]
Aklanon has 21 phonemes. There are 17 consonants: p, t, k, b, d, g, m, n, ng, s, h, l, r, w, y, the glottal stop pronounced as /ʔ/, and the voiced velar fricative pronounced as /ɣ/. There are six vowels: the three native vowels i, a, and u, which are typical for a Bisayan vowel inventory, the additional e and o for loanwords and common nouns, and a distinct phoneme argued by Zorc (2005) to be a close-mid back unrounded vowel pronounced as /[ɤ]/.[3]
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | ||||
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ ~ pronounced as /ink/ |
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palato-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Stop | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Affricate | (pronounced as /ink/) (pronounced as /ink/) | (pronounced as /ink/) (pronounced as /ink/) | ||||||
| Fricative | (pronounced as /ink/) (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ (pronounced as /ink/) | (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Flap | pronounced as /ink/ ~ pronounced as /link/ |
| Akeanon | Malaynon ! | English | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hi/Hello | |||
| Good morning | |||
| Good afternoon | |||
| Good night | |||
| Good day | |||
| Thanks | |||
| I am fine | |||
| Please | |||
| Yes | |||
| No | |||
| None | |||
| How? | |||
| When? | |||
| Where? | |||
| Who? | |||
| What? | |||
| Which? | |||
| Why? | |||
| How are you? | |||
| What is your name? | |||
| Where are you going? | |||
| When are you leaving? | |||
| What time is it? | |||
| How much is this? | |||
| What is the price? (monetary) | |||
| I will buy this | |||
| You are beautiful | |||
| You are handsome | |||
| You are kind | |||
| You are smart | |||
| Let's go | |||
| Hurry up | |||
| Let's go back | |||
| I do not understand | |||
| I do not know | |||
| I'd like cold water | |||
| I am hungry | |||
| Let's eat | |||
| The food is delicious | |||
| I have no money | |||
| You are crazy | |||
| You are laughing | |||
| I need to use the toilet | |||
| We are going | |||
| Where is your house located? | |||
| Where are you staying? | |||
| Take care | |||
Here is the Philippine national proverb in various languages.[5]
| Number | Akeanon/Malaynon | Hiligaynon | Tagalog | English | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | / (Malaynon) | One | |||
| 2 | Two | ||||
| 3 | Three | ||||
| 4 | Four | ||||
| 5 | Five | ||||
| 6 | Six | ||||
| 7 | Seven | ||||
| 8 | Eight | ||||
| 9 | Nine | ||||
| 10 | Ten |
Note: All these poems were written by Melchor F. Cichon, an Aklanon poet.