Northern Sorsogon language

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 toPhilippines
RegionSorsogon
Native speakers
(85,000 cited 1975 census)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3bks
Glottologmasb1237  Masbate Sorsogon

It is one of the three Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol region, next to Southern Sorsogon and Masbateño.

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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.