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.[2] It is closely related to, but distinct from Southern Sorsogon which is spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon.[3]
| Northern Sorsogon | |
|---|---|
| Masbate Sorsogon | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Sorsogon |
Native speakers | (85,000 cited 1975)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bks |
| Glottolog | masb1237 Masbate Sorsogon |
It is one of the three Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol region, next to Southern Sorsogon and Masbateño.
Phonology
edit| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Open | a |
| 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
edit- ^ 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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