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.

  1. ^ Southern Sorsogon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ MacFarland, Curtis D. (1974). The Dialects of the Bikol Area (Ph.D. dissertation). University of New Haven.
  3. ^ 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.