The Philippine Kankanaey -An Morpheme

Language is a significant aspect of every culture. Kankanaey one the most widely spoken languages in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Philippines. Regrettably, study this language has very few resources and material available for it. This presents centering on -an morpheme words, how they developed, present situation, can be improved or enriched to meet needs future times generations terms linguistic knowledge. It examines range words that are formed with morpheme, then it attempts classify input according affix/es used, part speech, aspect. also figures out meanings morpheme; summarizes some morphological phenomena were observed during study; defines conditioning factors govern rules usage words. More so, uses qualitative descriptive analysis through observation, classification analysis, inquiry, abstraction, verification revision. was revealed made up more prefixes, infixes, suffix, base appears suffix many meanings, so represents morphemes; its number corresponds count nouns, verbs, adjectives. verbs inflectable three aspects: perfective, imperfective, contemplated. Because verb characteristic, including transitiveness governed by grammar when used sentences. Similarly, changes attaching whether alone other affixes conjugating derived verbs. Keywords: affix, morphology,