| 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 Masbateño.
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Trill | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||