| 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 |
Northern Sorsogon (alsoMasbate Sorsogon,Northern Sorsoganon,Sorsogon Bicolano) is aBisayan language spoken in the central part ofSorsogon,Philippines, inSorsogon City and themunicipalities ofCasiguran, andJuban.[2] It is closely related to, but distinct fromSouthern Sorsogon which is spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon.[3]
It is one of the threeBisayan languages spoken in the Bicol region, next toSouthern Sorsogon andMasbateño.
| 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 | ||||
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