Davaoeño language explained

Davaoeño
Also Known As:Dabawenyo
Davaoeño
Nativename:Matino
States:Philippines
Region:Davao Region, Mindanao
Date:2005
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Philippine
Fam4:Greater Central Philippine
Fam5:Central Philippine
Fam6:Mansakan
Iso3:daw
Glotto:dava1245
Glottorefname:Davawenyo

Davaoeño (Dabawenyo) is a language of the Davao Region of Mindanao in the Philippines. According to Zorc (1977), it is a native Mansakan language influenced by Cebuano and Tagalog.[1] Traditionally, it was the principal language of the Davaoeño people, but it is no longer spoken in Davao City as speakers have shifted to a local dialect of the Cebuano language, called Davaoeño Cebuano (and often just called Davaoeño or Bisaya).

The Davaoeño language and Davaoeño Cebuano are also not to be confused with the extinct Davaoeño dialect of the Chavacano language that was once spoken in Davao (known as Chavacano Davaoeño or simply Davaoeño).

Notes and References

  1. Book: Zorc, David Paul . The Bisayan Dialects of the Philippines: Subgrouping and Reconstruction . registration . 1977 . Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University . 0858831570 . Canberra, Australia . 10.15144/PL-C44 . free . 21.