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Iriga Bikol
Spoken in  Philippines
Region Bicol
Total speakers 234,361 (Ethnologue, 2000)
Language family Austronesian
Writing system Latin (Filipino variant);
Historically written in Baybayin
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

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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