Masbateño language

Masbateño
Masbateño
Masbatenyo
Minasbate
Native to	Philippines
Region	Masbate province (almost whole portion of Masbate island proper, entire Ticao island and southern half of Burias island)
Ethnicity	Masbateño people
Native speakers	680,000 (2010)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine Bisayan Central Bisayan Masbate-Sorsogon Masbateño; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	msb
Glottolog	masb1238
	Areas where Masbateño is spoken
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Masbateño or Minasbate is a Bikol-Bisaya or Bisakol language mainly spoken by over 600,000 people in the province of Masbate in the Philippines. It is similar to Capiznon, Hiligaynon and Waray, which are all spoken in the Visayas. It is recognized as a Bisakol language, meaning a language between the Bisaya and Bikol languages.

Pronunciations[change | change source]

Masbatenyo has sixteen consonants: p, t, k, b, d, g, m, n, ng, s, h, w, l, r and y. There are three vowels: i, a, and u/o. The vowels u and o are allophones, u is always used at the beginning and sometimes at the end of a syllable, and o is always used at the end of a syllable. It is one of the languages in the Philippines where the [ɾ]-[d] allophone is not included.

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