Aklanon language

Aklanon
Aklan
Akeanon Binisaya nga Akeanon Inakeanon
Native to	Philippines
Region	Aklan, northwestern Capiz, northern Antique, and southern Romblon
Ethnicity	Aklanon
Native speakers	560,000 (2010)[1][needs update]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Bisayan Western Bisayan Aklanon
Dialects	Aklanon, Malaynon
Writing system	Latin; Historically Baybayin
Official status
Official language in	Regional language in the Philippines
Regulated by	Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: akl – Aklanon [2] mlz – Malaynon
Glottolog	akla1240  Aklanon
Area where Aklanon is spoken

Aklanon (Akeanon), also known as Bisaya/Binisaya nga Aklanon/Inaklanon or simply Aklan, is an Austronesian language of the Bisayan subgroup spoken by the Aklanon people in the province of Aklan on the island of Panay in the Philippines. Its unique feature among other Bisayan languages is the close-mid back unrounded vowel [ɤ] occurring as part of diphthongs and traditionally written with the letter ⟨Ee⟩ such as in the autonyms Akean and Akeanon. However, this phoneme is also present in other but geographically scattered and distant Philippine languages, namely Itbayat, Isneg, Manobo, Samal and Sagada.^[3]

The Malaynon dialect is 93% lexically similar to Aklanon and has retained the "l" sounds, which elsewhere are often pronounced as "r".^[4]