Northern Sorsogon language

Northern Sorsogon (also Masbate Sorsogon, Northern Sorsoganon, Sorsogon Bicolano) is a Bisayan language spoken in the central part of Sorsogon, Philippines, in Sorsogon City and the municipalities of Casiguran, and Juban.^[2] It is closely related to, but distinct from Southern Sorsogon which is spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon.^[3]

Northern Sorsogon
Masbate Sorsogon
Native to	Philippines
Region	Sorsogon
Native speakers	(85,000 cited 1975)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine Bisayan Central Bisayan Peripheral Masbate-Sorsogon Northern Sorsogon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bks
Glottolog	masb1237  Masbate Sorsogon

It is one of the three Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol region, next to Southern Sorsogon and Masbateño.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Open		a

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative	voiceless		s			h
	voiced		z			ɦ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Lateral			l
Trill			r
Semivowel				j	w