Southern Sorsogon language

Southern Sorsogon
Gubat
Native toPhilippines
RegionSorsogon
Native speakers
(185,000 cited 1975 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3srv
Glottologwara1299  Waray Sorsogon

Southern Sorsogon (also Waray Sorsogon, Gubat) is a Bisayan language spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon, Philippines, in the municipalities of Gubat, Barcelona, Bulusan, Santa Magdalena, Matnog, Bulan, and Irosin.[2] Although located in the Bicol Region, 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.[3] The other two Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol Region are Masbate Sorsogon and Masbateño.

Phonology

Southern Sorsogon has the following phoneme inventory:[3]

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 s h
Nasal m n ŋ
Lateral l
Trill r
Semivowel j w

Grammar

Personal pronouns

Southern Sorsogon has three pronoun sets.[3]

nominative genitive oblique
1st person singular aku ku akuʔ
2nd person singular ikaw, ka mu imu
3rd person singular siya niya kaniya
1st person plural inclusive kita ta atuʔ
1st person plural exclusive kami mi amuʔ
2nd person plural kamu niyu iyu
3rd person plural sira nira kanira

Verbs

Verbs in Southern Sorsogon are inflected for focus and aspect.[4]

completed progressive anticipative infinitive imperative
Actor focus nag-/⟨un⟩
naN-		 nag-CV-
naN-CV-		 má-
maN-CV-		 mag-/⟨un⟩
maN-		 pag-/∅
paN-
Patient focus ⟨in⟩ C⟨in⟩V- CV- -un -un -a
Locative focus ⟨in⟩ -an C⟨in⟩V- -an CV- -an -an -i
Instrument focus ⟨in⟩ C⟨in⟩V- i-CV- i- -an

Vocabulary

Numbers

Southern Sorsogon has the following numbers:[2]

English Tagalog Southern Sorsogon
one isá sayúʔ
two dalawá duwá
three tatló tulú
four apat upát
five limá limá
six anim unúm
seven pitó pitú
eight waló walú
nine siyám s(i)yám
ten sampoʔ napúluʔ

See also

References

  1. ^ Southern Sorsogon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b MacFarland, Curtis D. (1974). The Dialects of the Bikol Area (Ph.D. dissertation). University of New Haven.
  3. ^ a b c 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 0-85883-157-0.
  4. ^ Escalante, Antonio H. (1996). "A Study of South Sorsogon Verbs". In Ernesto A. Constantatino (ed.). Three Studies on Philippine Morphology. The Archive, Publication 11. Diliman: University of the Philippines. pp. 139–230.