Maguindanao language

Maguindanaon
Basa Magindanawn باس مڬندنون‎
Native to	Philippines
Region	Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, Sultan Kudarat, North Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, Davao del Sur, Davao del Norte, Davao Occidental, Bukidnon
Ethnicity	Maguindanaon
Native speakers	2,021,099 (2020)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Danao Maguindanaon
Dialects	Tau sa Ilud Tau sa Laya Biwangen
Writing system	Latin Arabic (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
Areas where Maguindanaon is the majority language
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Maguindanaon (Basa Magindanawn, Jawi: باس مڬندنون‎), or Magindanawn is an Austronesian language spoken by Maguindanaon people who form majority of the population of eponymous provinces of Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur in the Philippines. It is also spoken by sizable minorities in different parts of Mindanao such as the cities of Zamboanga, Davao, General Santos, and Cagayan de Oro, and the provinces of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, Davao del Sur, Davao Occidental, Bukidnon as well as Metro Manila.^{[citation needed]} As of 2020, the language is ranked to be the ninth leading language spoken at home in the Philippines with only 365,032 households still speaking the language.^[2]