Alternate Names: Kaagan, Kalagan, Minuslim, Kinalagan
Dialects: Eastern Kalagan, Isamal, Western Kalagan. Lexical similarity: 72% with Kagan ,, 74% with Mansaka ,, 83% with Mandaya ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 70,000 (2002 census), decreasing. 7,000 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 70,000. L2 users: Used by those intermarrying with local speakers.
Language Use: Strong in communities that are mainly Kalagan, but in mixed communities speakers tend to use Cebuano [ceb]. Youth bilingual in Cebuano, some are losing Kalagan ability. Home, neighborhood, religion. Adults; youth only in solid Kalagan communities. Sample scored 87% on Cebuano [ceb] narrative text. Also use English [eng], Tagalog [tgl]. Used as L2 by Koronadal Blaan [bpr], Tausug [tsg].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 80%. Literacy rate in L2: 80% in Cebuano, 50% in Tagalog; English. Bible portions: 1989–2011.
Typology: VOS, VSO; prepositions; articles before adjectives, before numerals, before noun heads; question word in sentence-initial position; 3 maximum prefixes, 2 maximum suffixes.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Philippines
Other Comments: Muslim.