Iranun language

Iranun
Iranun
إيراناونساي
Native to	Philippines; Malaysia
Region	Southwest Mindanao; Sabah, Malaysia
Ethnicity	Iranun
Native speakers	(250,000 cited 1981 [needs update])
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Danao Maranao–Iranun Iranun; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Jawi; Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; ilp – Philippine Iranun; ilm – Malaysian Iranun
Glottolog	iran1262
	Areas where Iranun is spoken

The Iranun language (Jawi: إيراناونساي), also known as Iranon or Illanun, is an Austronesian language belonging to the Danao languages spoken in the provinces of Maguindanao del Norte and other part of Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte, coastal municipalities of Zamboanga del Sur from Tukuran to Dumalinao and Cotabato in southern Philippines and the Malaysian state of Sabah. It is the second most spoken language in Maguindanao after the Maguindanao language.^[2]

Distribution

Iranun is spoken in the following areas:^[3]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Fricative			s
Trill			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Open		a

Sounds /i, u, a/ can also have allophones of [ɪ, e], [o], [ʌ], among speakers.^[4]

^ Philippine Iranun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Malaysian Iranun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "Maguindanao: Population to Reach One Million in 2006 (Results from the 2000 Census of Population and Housing, NSO)." Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine National Statistics Office. N.p., 1 Oct. 2002. Web. 16 July 2013.
^ Ethnologue
^ Allison, E. Joe (1979). Proto-Danaw: A comparative study of Maranaw, Magindanaw, and Iranun. In Papers in Philippine Linguistics No. 10: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 53–112.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

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