| Iriga Bikol | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in |  Philippines |
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| Region | Bicol | |
| Total speakers | 234,361 (Ethnologue, 2000) | |
| Language family | Austronesian | |
| Writing system | Latin (Filipino variant); Historically written in Baybayin |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | Regional language in the Philippines | |
| Regulated by | Commission on the Filipino Language | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | bto | |
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Iriga Bicolano or "Rinconada Bikol" is one of the three languages that compose the group Inland Bikol of the Bikol macrolanguage. It is spoken in Bula, Baao, Nabua, Balatan, Iriga City and Bato in Camarines Sur. Rinconada Bikol has the distinctive "short I" sound, which is equivalent to the long "e" or "U" sound of Standard Bikol, Tagalog, and Cebuano.
In the bicol-iriga language, you may often hear the phrase "Labina ma na" this means "oh come on!" the bicol-iriga dialect is quite easy to adapt to since they just mix and match a few letters with tagalog.. antuk "sleepy" in tagalog is turned into "tunka" in bicol-iriga.
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