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.