Capiznon or Capiceño (Bisaya nga Kinapisnon)[2][3][4] is an Austronesian regional language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines. Capiznon is concentrated in the province of Capiz in the northeast of Panay Island. It is a member of the Bisayan language family and the people are part of the wider Visayan ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. The language is often confused with Hiligaynon due to dialectological comprehension similarities and as high as 91% mutual intelligibility,[5] but it has its certain unique accent and vocabulary that integrates Aklanon and Waray lexicon.[6] Despite its distinct corruption of Hiligaynon lateral approximants, a prevalent feature among rural farmers, ethnic convergence and cosmopolitanism has led to a shift back to the purely Hiligaynon prosodic form of slower tonality and softer and longer vowels most particularly among the younger generations.

Capiznon
Capiceño
Binisaya, Binisaya nga Capiznon, Bisaya
Native to	Philippines
Region	Capiz and some portions of Iloilo, Aklan, Masbate, and Romblon
Ethnicity	Capiznon
Native speakers	710,000 (2010)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Bisayan Central Bisayan Capiznon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cps
Glottolog	capi1239
Area where Capiznon is spoken

Distribution

Capiznon is spoken in the following municipalities:

Common lexical differences between Capiznon and Hiligaynon languages

See also

• Hiligaynon language
• Capiz
• Capiznon people

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Capiznon phrasebook.

References

Capiznon language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator