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SUC ISO 639-3

Subanon, Western

Subanon Autonym

A language of Philippines

ISO 639
suc
Alternate Names
Siocon
Autonym
Subanon
Population
125,000 (2011 SIL).
Location:
Zamboanga Peninsula region: Zamboanga del Norte province, Labason town to southern border, mostly inland on Zamboanga Peninsula western slopes; Zamboanga Sibugay province, Ipil, Rosseler T Lim, and Tungawan municipalities on eastern slopes of peninsula.
Language Status
5 (Developing).
Classification
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Central Philippine, Subanon
Dialects
Siocon, Western Kolibugan (Western Kalibugan). Lexical similarity: 89% between Siocon and Western Kolibugan dialects.
Typology
VSO; prepositions; genitives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, and numerals before noun heads; relatives before noun heads, and relatives without noun heads; question word in sentence-initial position; 2 maximum prefixes, 3 maximum suffixes; word order distinguishes subjects, objects and indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; affixes do not indicate case of noun phrases; verb affixes mark number; ergativity; passives; causatives; comparatives; CV, CVC, CVV, CCV, CCVV, CVVC; nontonal.
Language Use
Used by all.
Language Development
Literacy rate in L1: 39%. Literacy rate in L2: 39%. Multilingual education pilot program. Literature. NT: 1996.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Subanon, Western
Writing
Latin script [Latn].
Other Comments
Christian.

Also Spoken in

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Location: Zamboanga Peninsula region: Zamboanga del Norte province, Labason town to southern border, mostly inland on Zamboanga Peninsula western slopes; Zamboanga Sibugay province, Ipil, Rosseler T Lim, and Tungawan municipalities on eastern slopes of peninsula.