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Ethnicity Yakan peopleFilipinos in Malaysia Native speakers (110,000 cited 1990 census) Language family AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianBarito?Sama–BajawYakan Official language in Regional language in the Philippines | ||
Yakan is a Sama–Bajaw language of Basilan Island in the Philippines. It is the native language of Yakan people, the indigenous as well as the largest ethnic group in the island. It has a total of 110,000 native speakers. Despite being located in the Philippines, it is not closely related to other Philippine languages but more closely related to Sama-Bajaw languages and possibly Barito languages in Indonesian Borneo and those in Madagascar and Mayotte.
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Yakan language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA