Talk:Bikol language

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[edit] Merge

Is anyone interested in merging this article with the article Bikol languages to reduce confusion?23prootie 08:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

How about moving this to a new article called Languages of the Bicol Region? Seems more appropriate to meAlternativity 17:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speakers

how can a language have 2.4 total speakers. There is either a missing unit here or this article isn't significant since the number of speakers is so small.

Should be million, obviously. --Chris S. 13:25, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dialectal variation

Re Philippine languages#Dialectal variation, do speakers of these dialects understand each other, or are they really different languages?

No. People only an hour away from each other speak very different dialects. Grammar is the same, and morphology of words is easily tracked over distance but the dialects aren't mutually intelligible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BicolBandit (talk • contribs) 03:52, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Delete this redirect page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.217.13.248 (talk) 16:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ergative?

I've been reading some articles about philippine languages recently and I can't remember that anyone has referred to Bikol grammar as an ergative-system, nor can I understand for what reasons you would classify Bikol as an ergative-language. Can anyone explain this to me? 84.119.76.74 (talk) 15:35, 20 May 2008 (UTC)