Northern Sorsogon language

Northern Sorsogon
Northern Sorsogon
Masbate Sorsogon
Native to	Philippines
Region	Sorsogon
Native speakers	(85,000 cited 1975)
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

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]

References

^ Northern Sorsogon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ MacFarland, Curtis D. (1974). The Dialects of the Bikol Area (Ph.D. dissertation). University of New Haven.
^ Zorc, David Paul (1977). The Bisayan Dialects of the Philippines: Subgrouping and Reconstruction. Canberra, Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-C44. ISBN 0858831570.