Alternate Names: Mandaya Mansaka
Dialects: Lexical similarity: 80% with Bislig-Mati, 89% with Mandaya ,, 84% with Mati, 74% with Piso dialect of Kalagan ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 57,800 (2000).
Language Use: Used as L2 by Mandaya [mry].
Language Development: Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1975.
Typology: VSO, VOS; prepositions; genitives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, and numerals before noun heads; relatives without noun heads; question word in sentence-initial position; 3 maximum prefixes, 2 maximum suffixes; word order distinguishes given and new information, topic and comment; affixes do not indicate case of noun phrases; verb affixes mark number; passives; causatives; comparatives; CV, CVC, CVV; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Philippines