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 Filipino Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine Visayan Central Bisayan Masbate-Sorsogon Masbateño; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	msb
Glottolog	masb1238
	Areas where Masbateño is spoken

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.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciations

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.

Reference

↑ "Authentication challenge pages" (PDF). psa.gov.ph. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
↑ Rosero, Michael Wilson I.; Balbuena, Sherwin E.; Blancaver, Paul Jowen. "Draft Minasbate Working Orthography". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[1] "Authentication challenge pages" (PDF). psa.gov.ph. Retrieved 2025-06-14.

[2] Rosero, Michael Wilson I.; Balbuena, Sherwin E.; Blancaver, Paul Jowen. "Draft Minasbate Working Orthography". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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