Northern Sorsogon language

Northern Sorsogon
Masbate Sorsogon
Native to	Philippines
Region	Sorsogon
Native speakers	(85,000 cited 1975)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine Bisayan Central Bisayan Peripheral Masbate-Sorsogon Northern Sorsogon
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.[2] It is closely related to, but distinct from Southern Sorsogon which is spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon.[3]

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.