Alternate Names: Kaagan, Kagan Kalagan
Dialects: 82% intelligibility with Kalagan , dialect.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 6,000 (1981 SIL).
Language Use: Positive attitudes. Also use Cebuano [ceb].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: Perhaps 60%.
Typology: VOS, VSO; prepositions; genitives before noun heads; articles before adjectives, before and after numerals, before noun heads; relatives after noun heads; question word in sentence-initial position; 3 maximum prefixes, 2 maximum suffixes; word order distinguishes subjects, objects and indirect objects when case does not, word order distinguishes 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, CVVC; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Philippines