Southern Sorsogon language explained

Southern Sorsogon
Also Known As:	Gubat
States:	Philippines
Region:	Sorsogon
Speakers:	185,000
Date:	1975 census
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Philippine
Fam4:	Central Philippine
Fam5:	Bisayan
Fam6:	Central Bisayan
Fam7:	Warayan
Iso3:	srv
Glotto2:	wara1299
Glottoname2:	Waray Sorsogon

Southern Sorsogon (also Waray Sorsogon, Gubat) is a Bisayan language spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon, Philippines, in the municipalities of Gubat, Barcelona, Bulusan, Santa Magdalena, Matnog, Bulan, and Irosin.^[1] Although located in the Bicol Region, Southern Sorsogon belongs to the Warayan Bisayan subgroup, and is mutually intelligible to Waray which is spoken to the south on the neighboring island of Samar.^[2] The other two Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol Region are Masbate Sorsogon and Masbateño.

Phonology

Southern Sorsogon has the following phoneme inventory:

Vowels!!Front!Central!Back

Close	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Open		pronounced as /link/

Consonants! colspan="2"

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
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			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/

Grammar

Personal pronouns

Southern Sorsogon has three pronoun sets.

	nominative	genitive	oblique
1st person singular
2nd person singular	,
3rd person singular
1st person plural inclusive
1st person plural exclusive
2nd person plural
3rd person plural

Verbs

Verbs in Southern Sorsogon are inflected for focus and aspect.^[3]

	completed	progressive	anticipative	infinitive	imperative
Actor focus	nag-/(un) naN-	nag-CV- naN-CV-	má- maN-CV-	mag-/(un) maN-	pag-/∅ paN-
Patient focus	(in)	C(in)V-	CV- -un	-un	-a
Locative focus	(in) -an	C(in)V- -an	CV- -an	-an	-i
Instrument focus	(in)	C(in)V-	i-CV-	i-	-an

See also

• Waray language
• Waray people
• Masbateño language
• Bisakol languages
• Visayans

Notes and References

1. MacFarland . Curtis D. . 1974 . The Dialects of the Bikol Area . Ph.D. dissertation . University of New Haven . en.
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 . 0-85883-157-0 . Canberra, Australia . 10.15144/PL-C44 . free . registration . en.
3. Book: Escalante, Antonio H. . 1996 . A Study of South Sorsogon Verbs . 139–230. Ernesto A. Constantatino . Three Studies on Philippine Morphology . The Archive, Publication 11 . Diliman . University of the Philippines . en.