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.[3] It is closely related to, but distinct from Southern Sorsogon which is spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon.[4]
| Northern Sorsogon | |
|---|---|
| Masbate Sorsogon | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Sorsogon |
Native speakers | (85,000 cited 1975 census)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bks |
| Glottolog | masb1237 Masbate Sorsogon[2] |
It is one of the three Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol region, next to Southern Sorsogon and Masbateño.
References
- Northern Sorsogon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Masbate Sorsogon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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.
| Official languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regional languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indigenous languages (by region) |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Immigrant languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sign languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Historical languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.