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Maranao|ˈmærənaʊ|
Also Maranaw.
[ad. Maranao Maranáw, f. ranaw lake.]
a. A Moro people inhabiting the province of Lanao del Sur and parts of central Cotabato province in the island of Mindanao (in the Republic of the Philippines), and some areas of northern Borneo.
b. The Austronesian language of these people.
1957[see Illano]. 1962H. C. Conklin in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 429 Pronoun systems in Tagalog, Ilocano.., Maranao.., and some other Philippine languages. 1963H. Ostelius Islands of Pleasure xiii. 78 There are also the inland Moros. The Maranao and Magindanaw are farmers... Because their main home is located around Lake Lanao on the island of Mindanao the Maranaos are commonly called the Lake Moros. 1968J. Kirkup Filipinescas viii. 154 The noble movements..portrayed a Maranaw warrior. 1969J. Cockcroft Philippines 55 About 87 different languages and dialects are spoken in the Philippines... Tagalog, spoken in Manila,..Maranao, in Lanao. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 595/1 Like other Filipino Muslims, the Maranao differ markedly from the Christians. 1975Language LI. 365 At the opposite extreme is a language like Maranao, in which there seems to be a specific Voice morpheme for each possible realization of a verb's subcategorization feature. |