Masbateño language

Masbateño
Minasbate
Native to Philippines
Region Masbate province (entire Ticao island; most parts of Masbate and Burias islands)
Ethnicity Masbateño people
Native speakers
 350,000  (2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 msb
Glottolog masb1238[2]

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Area where Masbatenyo is spoken

Masbateño is a Visayan language spoken by more than 600,000 people, primarily in the province of Masbate in the Philippines. It is close to Capiznon variant of Hiligaynon (Ilonggo) and Waray-Waray, both spoken on Visayas. It can be considered a Bisakol language, meaning a language intermediate between Visayan and Bikol languages.

Sounds

Masbateño 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, with u always being used when it is the beginning and sometimes end of a syllable, and o always used when it ends a syllable. This is one of the Philippine languages which is excluded from [ɾ]-[d] allophone.

Examples

W-H Questions

Animals

Common Phrases

Counting

Common Adjectives

Literature in Masbatenyo

Sani na Dalan[3]

By Sherwin Balbuena


Kun mag-ági ka

Saní na dálan

Warâ na'n balíkan


Saní na dálan

May púnò san mángga

Na punô sin búnga


An úna nag-agi

An puno ginyugyog

Takdag pati putot


Panduha nag-agi

Kay wara na'n bunga

Dahon an ginpa-pa


Pantulo nag-agi

Kay wara na'n dahon

Panit an ginkaon


Pang-upat nag-agi

Kay wara na'n panit

Gamot an ginkitkit


An ulhi nag-agi

Kay wara na'n gamot

Nagsupa sin lapok


References

  1. ↑ Masbateño at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Masbatenyo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=505372