Porohanon language
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| Porohanon | ||
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| Spoken in: | Philippines | |
| Region: | Central Visayas | |
| Total speakers: | 23,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Borneo-Philippines Meso Philippine Central Philippine Visayan Central Peripheral Porohanon |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | prh | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Porohanon is a Visayan language spoken in the Camotes Islands in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. Its closest relatives are Hiligaynon and Masbateño and is barely intelligible with Cebuano though it shares 87% of its vocabulary with it.[1].
[edit] Phonology
Porohanon speakers pronounce /y/ as [z].
[edit] References
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