The Inabaknon language, also known as the Abaknon language or the Capul language (according to the Summer Institute of Linguistics' Ethnologue, alternative names for this language include: Abaknon, Abaknon Sama, Capul, Capuleño, Kapul, Sama) is a language primarily spoken in the island-municipality

Municipalities of the Philippines

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 of Capul

Capul, Northern Samar

Capul is a 5th class island municipality in the province of Northern Samar, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 10,619 people in 2,071 households...

, Northern Samar

Northern Samar

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 in the Eastern Visayas

Eastern Visayas

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 region of the Visayas

Visayas

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 area in the country of the Philippines

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Unlike the other indigenous languages of the Eastern Visayas

Eastern Visayas

Eastern Visayas is one of the two regions of the Philippines having no land border with another region, MIMAROPA being the other, and is designated as Region VIII...

, namely Waray-Waray and Cebuano

Cebuano language

Cebuano, referred to by most of its speakers as Bisaya , is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people mostly in the Central Visayas. It is the most widely spoken of the languages within the so-named Bisayan subgroup and is closely related to other Filipino...

, Inabaknon is not classified as a Visayan language but is rather grouped with the Sama–Bajaw languages.