Bantayanon language

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Bantayanon
Bantayanon
Native to	Philippines
Region	Bantayan Island, Cebu Province
Native speakers	72,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Visayan Central Visayan Peripheral Bantayanon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bfx
Glottolog	bant1293[2]

The Bantayanon language is the regional language of the island of Bantayan in the Philippines. It is a part of the Visayan language family and is closely related to Hiligaynon.

References

1. 
   

Bantayanon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bantayanon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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