Bikol languages

The Bikol languages or Bicolano languages are a group of Central Philippine languages spoken mostly in the Bicol Peninsula in the southeastern part of Luzon, the neighboring island-province of Catanduanes, and the island of Burias in Masbate.

[1] Pandan (North Catanduanes) Iriga (Rinconada) Buhi (Buhi'non) Libon Oas (West Miraya) Daraga (East Miraya) Naga (Standard Bikol), Legazpi, and Partido Virac (South Catanduanes) San Pascual (Northern Burias Island) While McFarland (1974) splits Bikol into 11 dialects, Lobel (2000) splits Bikol into 12 different dialects (including Partido Bikol, which McFarland does not differentiate) and 4 main branches.

[2] Some dialects of Southern Bikol have the close central unrounded vowel /ɨ/ as a reflex of Proto-Austronesian *ə.

However, Proto-Austronesian *ə is realized as /o/ in Libon.

Two Bikol dialects have unique additional consonants, namely Southern Catanduanes, which has an interdental lateral consonant /l̟/ (also transcribed as l̪͆),[3][4] and Buhi-non, which has the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/.

Geographic distribution of major Bikol languages and dialects across Bicol region ; classification based on Lobel (2013); Masbatenyo, Central Sorsogon, and Southern Sorsogon are Bisayan languages but heavily influenced by Bikol.
A speaker of Bicolano, recorded in the United States
A poem written in a Bikol dialect.