Porohanon language

Porohanon language

language
name=Porohanon
familycolor=Austronesian
states=Philippines
region=Central Visayas
speakers=23,000
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Borneo-Philippines
fam4=Central Philippine
fam5=Visayan
fam6=Central
fam7=Peripheral
iso3=prh

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. [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=prh Ethnologue report for language code:prh ] ] .

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Porohanon speakers pronounce /y/ as [z] .


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