Northern Sorsogon | |
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Masbate Sorsogon | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | Sorsogon |
Native speakers | (85,000 cited 1975) |
Language family | Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bks |
Glottolog | masb1237 Masbate Sorsogon |
Northern Sorsogon (also Masbate Sorsogon, Northern Sorsoganon, Sorsogon Bicolano) is a Bisayan language spoken in the central part of Sorsogon, Philippines, in Sorsogon City and the municipalities of Casiguran, and Juban. It is closely related to, but distinct from Southern Sorsogon which is spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon.
It is one of the three Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol region, next to Southern Sorsogon and Masbateño.
Phonology
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Open | a |
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Fricative | voiceless | s | h | |||
voiced | z | ɦ | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Lateral | l | |||||
Trill | r | |||||
Semivowel | j | w |
References
- Northern Sorsogon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- MacFarland, Curtis D. (1974). The Dialects of the Bikol Area (Ph.D. dissertation). University of New Haven.
- Zorc, David Paul (1977). The Bisayan Dialects of the Philippines: Subgrouping and Reconstruction. Canberra, Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-C44. ISBN 0858831570.
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