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Aklan (Aklanon Akeanon) is spoken in the province of Aklan on the island of Panay in the Philippines. Its unique feature among other Philippine languages is the close-mid back unrounded vowel [ɤ] represented by the phoneme /ea/ as in the name Akeanon (Aklanon).The Malaynon dialect is 93% lexically similar to Aklanon and retained the l sounds which elsewhere are often pronounced as r.Ibayjanon (Ibajaynon) dialect has shortened versions of Aklanon words.

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family
Malayo-Polynesian languages, Visayan languages, Central Philippine languages, Philippine languages
spoken in
Philippines, Aklan, Capiz

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