Albay Bikol language

Albay Bikol, or simply Albayanon is a group of languages and one of the three languages that compose Inland Bikol. It is spoken in the southwestern coast of Albay, (Pio Duran, Jovellar) and northwestern Sorsogon. The region is bordered by the Coastal Bikol and Rinconada Bikol speakers. The latter is the closest language of Albay Bikol and is mutually intelligible. They are both included in Inland Bikol group of languages.

Albay Bikol
Native to	Philippines
Region	Bicol
Native speakers	700,000; 300,000 of rbl; 260,000 of fbl; 73,600 of ubl; 68,800 of lbl (2009 SIL)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Bikol languages Inland Bikol Albay Bikol
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: ubl – Boînën lbl – Libon Bikol rbl – Miraya Bikol fbl – West Albay Bikol
Glottolog	alba1269

Albay Bikol is the only sub-group of the Inland Bikol group with several languages with in it. The member languages in this sub-grouping lack stressed syllables, rare, if there is, and that makes them different and unique from other Bikol languages. The said feature of Albay Bikol is comparable to French and Portuguese languages that rarely use stressed syllables.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open	a

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	(tʃ)	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	(dʒ)	ɡ
Fricative			s	(ʃ)
Tap			ɾ
Approximant		w	l	j

/tʃ/ is borrowed from loanwords.

Sounds [dʒ, ʃ] are heard from borrowings as a realization of sequences ⟨di, si⟩.^[2]

Dialectal variation

"Were you there at the market for a long time?" translated into Albay Bikol languages, Coastal Bikol and Rinconada Bikol.

Coastal Bikol	Boînën	Libon	Oasnon/West Miraya	Daraga/East Miraya	Rinconada Bikol
Nahaloy ka duman sa saod?	Naëǧëy ika adto sa saran?	Naoban ika adtu sa sawod?	Naëlëy ka idto sa sëd?	Naëlay ka didto sa sâran?	Naëban ika sadto saran?

See also

• Languages of the Philippines