Northern Sorsogon language explained

Northern Sorsogon
Also Known As:Masbate Sorsogon
States:Philippines
Region:Sorsogon
Speakers:85,000
Date:1975
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam5:Central Philippine
Fam6:Bisayan
Fam7:Central Bisayan
Fam8:Peripheral
Fam9:Masbate-Sorsogon
Iso3:bks
Glotto2:masb1237
Glottoname2: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.[1] It is closely related to, but distinct from Southern Sorsogon which is spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon.[2]

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

Notes and References

  1. MacFarland . Curtis D. . 1974 . The Dialects of the Bikol Area . Ph.D. dissertation . University of New Haven.
  2. Book: Zorc, David Paul . The Bisayan Dialects of the Philippines: Subgrouping and Reconstruction . 1977 . Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University . 0858831570 . Canberra, Australia . 10.15144/PL-C44 . free . registration .