Southern Sorsogon (also Waray Sorsogon, Bisakol, Gubat) is a
Bisayan language spoken in the southern part of
Sorsogon
Sorsogon, officially the Province of Sorsogon ( Bikol: ''Probinsya kan Sorsogon''; Waray: ''Probinsya han Sorsogon''; ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Bicol Region. It is the southernmost province in the island of Luzon and ...
,
Philippines
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, in the
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
of
Gubat,
Barcelona
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,
Bulusan,
Santa Magdalena,
Matnog,
Bulan, and
Irosin
Irosin, officially the Municipality of Irosin (; , ), is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, Philippines.
History
Irosin frequently experienced erosion due to river inundations. On December 24, 1933, massive flooding caused numerous fat ...
.
Although located in the
Bicol Region
The Bicol Region, designated as Region V, is an administrative region of the Philippines. It comprises six Provinces of the Philippines, provinces, four on the Bicol Peninsula (the luzon#Southeastern Luzon, southeastern end of Luzon): Albay, Ca ...
, 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
Samar ( ) is the third-largest and seventh-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 1,909,537 as of the 2020 census. It is located in the eastern Visayas, which are in the central Philippines. The island is divided in ...
.
The other two Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol Region are
Masbate Sorsogon and
Masbateño.
Phonology
Southern Sorsogon has the following phoneme inventory:
Grammar
Personal pronouns
Southern Sorsogon has three personal pronoun sets.
Deictic pronouns
Southern Sorsogon has three deictic pronoun sets.
Noun case markers
Southern Sorsogon has three noun case marker sets.
Verbs
Verbs in Southern Sorsogon are inflected for
focus
Focus (: foci or focuses) may refer to:
Arts
* Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in East Australia Film
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and
aspect.
Vocabulary
Numbers
Southern Sorsogon has the following numbers:
See also
*
Waray language
Waray (also known as Waray-Waray or Bisayâ/Binisayâ nga Winaray/Waray, meaning Samar language) is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern Visayas. It is the native l ...
*
Waray people
The Waray people (or the Waray-Waray people) are a subgroup of the larger ethnolinguistic group Bisaya people, who constitute the 4th largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. Their primary language is the Waray language (als ...
*
Masbateño language
*
Bisakol languages
*
Visayans
Visayans ( Cebuano: ''mga Bisayà'' ) are a Philippine ethnolinguistic family group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, to the southernmost islands south of Luzon, and to a significant portion of Mindanao. They are composed of numerous d ...
References
{{Languages of the Philippines
Visayan languages
Languages of Sorsogon