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Southern Sorsogon
Southern Sorsogon
Gubat
Native to	Philippines
Region	Sorsogon
Native speakers	(185,000 cited 1975 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Bisayan Central Bisayan Warayan Southern Sorsogon; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	srv
Glottolog	wara1299 Waray Sorsogon

Southern Sorsogon (also Waray Sorsogon, Gubat) is a Bisayan language spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon, Philippines, in the municipalities of Gubat, Barcelona, Bulusan, Santa Magdalena, Matnog, Bulan, and Irosin.^[2] Although located in the Bicol Region, Southern Sorsogon belongs to the Warayan Bisayan subgroup, and is mutually intelligible to Waray which is spoken to the south on the neighboring island of Samar.^[3] The other two Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol Region are Masbate Sorsogon and Masbateño.

Phonology

Southern Sorsogon has the following phoneme inventory:^[3]

Vowels
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Open		a

Consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative			s			h
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Lateral			l
Trill			r
Semivowel				j	w

Southern Sorsogon has three pronoun sets.^[3]

Verbs in Southern Sorsogon are inflected for focus and aspect.^[4]

	completed	progressive	anticipative	infinitive	imperative
Actor focus	nag-/⟨un⟩ naN-	nag-CV- naN-CV-	má- maN-CV-	mag-/⟨un⟩ maN-	pag-/∅ paN-
Patient focus	⟨in⟩	C⟨in⟩V-	CV- -un	-un	-a
Locative focus	⟨in⟩ -an	C⟨in⟩V- -an	CV- -an	-an	-i
Instrument focus	⟨in⟩	C⟨in⟩V-	i-CV-	i-	-an

Southern Sorsogon has the following numbers:^[2]

^ Southern Sorsogon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b MacFarland, Curtis D. (1974). The Dialects of the Bikol Area (Ph.D. dissertation). University of New Haven.
^ ^a ^b ^c Zorc, David Paul (1977). The Bisayan Dialects of the Philippines: Subgrouping and Reconstruction. Canberra, Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-C44. ISBN 0-85883-157-0.
^ Escalante, Antonio H. (1996). "A Study of South Sorsogon Verbs". In Ernesto A. Constantatino (ed.). Three Studies on Philippine Morphology. The Archive, Publication 11. Diliman: University of the Philippines. pp. 139–230.