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Coastal Bikol
Coastal Bikol ( bcl, Baybayon na Bikol) is one of the three groups or family languages of Bikol languages. It includes Mt. Isarog Agta, Mt. Iraya Agta, Central Bikol, and Southern Catanduanes Bikol, sometimes classified as a dialect of Central Bikol. Ethnologue The languages grouped as Coastal Bikol according to ''Ethnologue'' are: *Coastal Bikol (Northern) ** Isarog Agta language **Mount Iraya Agta language **Central Bikol language ***Canaman dialect (standard) *** Naga City dialect ***Partido dialect ***Tabaco-Legazpi-Sorsogon (TLS) dialect ***Daet dialect **Southern Catanduanes Bikol language See also * Bikol languages The Bikol languages or Bicolano languages are a group of Central Philippine languages spoken mostly in the Bicol Peninsula in the island of Luzon, the neighboring island province of Catanduanes and the island of Burias in Masbate Masbate, ... Notes References * Bikol languages {{philippine-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republika sang Filipinas * ibg, Republika nat Filipinas * ilo, Republika ti Filipinas * ivv, Republika nu Filipinas * pam, Republika ning Filipinas * krj, Republika kang Pilipinas * mdh, Republika nu Pilipinas * mrw, Republika a Pilipinas * pag, Republika na Filipinas * xsb, Republika nin Pilipinas * sgd, Republika nan Pilipinas * tgl, Republika ng Pilipinas * tsg, Republika sin Pilipinas * war, Republika han Pilipinas * yka, Republika si Pilipinas In the recognized optional languages of the Philippines: * es, República de las Filipinas * ar, جمهورية الفلبين, Jumhūriyyat al-Filibbīn is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komisyon Sa Wikang Filipino
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Canaman, Camarines Sur
Canaman, officially the Municipality of Canaman ( bcl, Banwaan kan Canaman; tl, Bayan ng Canaman) is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 36,205 people. Canaman is known for its upscale shopping, heritage which dates back to Spanish era, and its new first class housings. Canaman is part of the Metro Naga Urban Area. Etymology The area that is now Canaman used to very thickly forested. According to Fr. Frank Lynch, S.J., who said that Canaman is the purest among Bicol dialects: “The name Canaman is locally said to be derived from the root ''kana'', meaning "building materials". The suffix -''man'' is taken as a locative, the name thus indicating “place where there are building materials”. History Spanish colonization in Canaman began around the 1580s when some Nueva Caceres-based missionaries apparently on their way back from gospel work in either the visita of Quipayo (now Calabanga) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Bikol Language
Central Bikol commonly called Bikol Naga, also known simply as Bikol, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bicolanos, primarily in the Bicol Region of southern Luzon, Philippines. It is spoken in the northern and western part of Camarines Sur, second congressional district of Camarines Norte, eastern part of Albay, northeastern part of Sorsogon, San Pascual town in Masbate, and southwestern part of Catanduanes. Central Bikol speakers can be found in all provinces of Bicol and it is a majority language in Camarines Sur. The standard ''sprachraum'' form is based on the Canaman dialect. Central Bikol features some vocabulary not found in other Bikol languages nor in other members of the Central Philippine language family like Tagalog and Cebuano. Examples are the words and , which are the same as the Kapampangan words meaning 'older' and 'foot, feet', respectively. The word ('night') is another example of this as it is different from the usual Bikol word but closer to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Iraya Agta Language
Mount Iraya Agta is a Bikol language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Agta (Negrito) people of the Philippines, east of Lake Buhi in Luzon. It is mutually intelligible with Mount Iriga Agta on the other side of the lake. As of 2013, the Mount Iraya Agta language may be extinct. The Mount Iraya Agta live on the eastern side of Lake Buhi Lake Buhi is a lake found in Buhi, Camarines Sur in the Philippines. It has an area of and has an average depth of . The lake lies in the valley formed by two ancient volcanoes, Mount Iriga (also known as ''Mount Asog'') and Mount Malinao. It wa ... in Camarines Sur, near the border with the town of Tiwi, Albay. Mount Iraya Agta had borrowed so heavily from Bikol that it was indistinguishable from neighboring non-Agta languages except for a very small amount of lexicon, based on evidence from a 1984 SIL wordlist. The Mount Iraya Agta people now speak Buhinon language, Buhinon and Bikol Naga/Partido. Notes References * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Catanduanes Bikol Language
Southern Catanduanes Bikol, or Virac is one of the Bikol languages of Catanduanes Catanduanes (; ), officially the Province of Catanduanes, is an island province located in the Bicol Region of Luzon in the Philippines. It is the 12th-largest island in the Philippines, and lies to the east of Camarines Sur, across Maqueda Cha ... in the Philippines. References Bikol languages Languages of Catanduanes {{CPhilippine-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Bikol
Central Bikol commonly called Bikol Naga, also known simply as Bikol, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bicolanos, primarily in the Bicol Region of southern Luzon, Philippines. It is spoken in the northern and western part of Camarines Sur, second congressional district of Camarines Norte, eastern part of Albay, northeastern part of Sorsogon, San Pascual town in Masbate, and southwestern part of Catanduanes. Central Bikol speakers can be found in all provinces of Bicol and it is a majority language in Camarines Sur. The standard ''sprachraum'' form is based on the Canaman dialect. Central Bikol features some vocabulary not found in other Bikol languages nor in other members of the Central Philippine language family like Tagalog and Cebuano. Examples are the words and , which are the same as the Kapampangan words meaning 'older' and 'foot, feet', respectively. The word ('night') is another example of this as it is different from the usual Bikol word but closer to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inagta Partido Language
Inagta Partido (Isarog Agta) or alternatively Katubung is a nearly extinct Bikol language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Agta (Negrito) people of the Philippines. It is found on Mount Isarog Mount Isarog is an active stratovolcano located in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines, on the island of Luzon. The mountain has active fumaroles and hot springs. It has an elevation of above mean sea level. The broad isthmus between Lag ... east of Naga City particularly in the town of Ocampo where the most recent survey of the language was conducted. According to Lobel (2013), there are no speakers of Inagta Partido under 60. It is a moribund language. The ''Ethnologue'' cites a report from 2000 that there were then only five speakers from an ethnic population of about 1,000. Inagta Partido has borrowed heavily from Bikol languages such as Bikol Naga and Bikol Partido, but has a non-Bikol substratum. Notes References * * Aeta languages Bikol langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Philippine Scripts
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Bicol Region
Bicol, known formally as the Bicol Region or colloquially as Bicolandia ( bcl, Rehiyon kan Bikol; Rinconada Bikol: ''Rehiyon ka Bikol''; Waray Sorsogon, Masbateño: ''Rehiyon san Bikol''; tl, Rehiyon ng Bikol), is an administrative region of the Philippines, designated as Region V. Bicol comprises six provinces, four on the Bicol Peninsula mainland (the southeastern end of Luzon) – Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and Sorsogon – and the offshore island provinces of Catanduanes and Masbate. The regional center is Legazpi City and has one Independent Component City, the pilgrim city of Naga. The region is bounded by the Lamon Bay to the north, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Sibuyan Sea and Ragay Gulf to the west. The northernmost provinces, Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur, are bordered to the west by the province of Quezon. Geography The Bicol Region comprises the southern part of Luzon, the largest island in the Philippine archipelago. The total land a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bikol Braille
Philippine Braille or Filipino Braille is the braille alphabet of the Philippines. Besides Filipino ( Tagalog), essentially the same alphabet is used for Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon and Bicol.The 17th edition of ''Ethnologue'' reports braille usage for Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Waray, and Chavacano as well. They use presumably the same conventions as Filipino. Philippine Braille is based on the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet used for Grade-1 English Braille English Braille, also known as ''Grade 2 Braille'', is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters ( phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Bra ..., so the print digraph ''ng'' is written as a digraph in braille as well. The print letter ''ñ'' is rendered with the generic accent point, . These are considered part of the alphabet, which is therefore, : Numbers and punctuation are as in traditional English B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
