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(Redirected from Masbate Sorsogon language) Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
Northern Sorsogon
Masbate Sorsogon
Native toPhilippines
RegionSorsogon
Native speakers(85,000 cited 1975)
Language familyAustronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3bks
Glottologmasb1237  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

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u
Open a
Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
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

  1. Northern Sorsogon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. MacFarland, Curtis D. (1974). The Dialects of the Bikol Area (Ph.D. dissertation). University of New Haven.
  3. 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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