Porohanon language

Porohanon
Native to	Philippines
Region	Central Visayas (Camotes Islands, Cebu)
Native speakers	(23,000 cited 1960)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Bisayan Central Bisayan Peripheral Porohanon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	prh
Glottolog	poro1253

Porohanon is a regional Bisayan language spoken in the Camotes Islands in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. Its closest relatives are Hiligaynon, Capiznon and Masbateño; it is barely intelligible with Cebuano though it shares 87% of its vocabulary with it.^[2] It also retains many older features that Cebuano has lost, such as the use of the genitive marker ahead of the second member of a compounded form, the distinction between a definite and indefinite subject marker, and the distinction between a definite genitive marker and a locative one.^[1]

Phonology

Consonants of Porohanon^[3]

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d		k ɡ	ʔ
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Fricative		s z			h
Trill		r
Approximant	w	l	j

Porohanon has three vowels: /i/, /a/ and /u/. They are contrasted by length.^[1][3]

References

1. Wolff, John U. (1967). "History of the Dialect of the Camotes Islands, Philippines, and the Spread of Cebuano Bisayan". Oceanic Linguistics. 6 (2): 63–79. doi:10.2307/3622759. JSTOR 3622759. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
2. Porohanon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
3. Santiago, Vincent Christopher (May 2018). "Porohanon phonology: An acoustic description". 28th Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Conference. Retrieved 8 July 2022.