Maguindanao language

Maguindanao
Maguindanao
Native to	Philippines
Region	Southwest Mindanao
Ethnicity	Maguindanao people
Native speakers	1.1 million (2010)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Danao Maguindanao; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin;; Historically Jawi
Official status
Official language in	Regional language in the Philippines
Regulated by	Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mdh
Glottolog	magu1243
	Area where Maguindanaoan is spoken

Maguindanao or Maguindanaon is an Austronesian language spoken by majority of the population of Maguindanao province in the Philippines. It is also spoken by sizable minorities in different parts of Mindanao such as the cities of Zamboanga, Davao, and General Santos, and the provinces of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, as well as Metro Manila. This was the language of the historic Sultanate of Maguindanao, which existed before and during the Spanish colonial period from 1500–1888.

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