The dialect of Malaybalay, in the Pulangi area, is considered to be the prestige and standard variety.

The phoneme [ɾ] is sometimes trilled which is used in intervocalic position or in Spanish loanwords by some speakers.

The /d/-final allomorphs of the vowel-final NOM or GEN pronouns are used almost exclusively before en ('already'), a bound adverbial.

In the dictionary by the LSP and SIL (1992:x–xi), the alphabet employed consists of the following letters which correspond to one phoneme.

If stress is shown on the final letter and there is a following glottal stop, a circumflex accent ⟨ˆ⟩ can be used.

Examples: The plural particle marker manga is written mga, following accepted Philippine usage.