| Porohanon | |
| States: | Philippines |
| Region: | Central Visayas (Camotes Islands, Cebu) |
| Speakers: | 23,000 |
| Date: | 1960 |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Philippine |
| Fam4: | Central Philippine |
| Fam5: | Bisayan |
| Fam6: | Central Bisayan |
| Fam7: | Peripheral |
| Iso3: | prh |
| Glotto: | poro1253 |
| Glottorefname: | Porohanon |
Porohanon is a regional Bisayan language spoken in the Camotes Islands in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. Its closest relatives are Hiligaynon, Capiznon and Masbateño; it is barely intelligible with Cebuano though it shares 87% of its vocabulary with it. It also retains many older features that Cebuano has lost, such as the use of the genitive marker ahead of the second member of a compounded form, the distinction between a definite and indefinite subject marker, and the distinction between a definite genitive marker and a locative one.[1]
| Plosive | p b | t d | k ɡ | ʔ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s z | h | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | j |
Porohanon has three vowels: pronounced as //i//, pronounced as //a// and pronounced as //u//. They are contrasted by length.[1] [2]