Description
A Masbatenyo – English Dictionary / Special Monograph Issue, Number 38
Complied by Elmer P. Wolfenden
With Language Consultants Miriam V. Barlet and Felixberto V. Granado, Jr.
Publisher: Linguistic Society of the Philippines
Manila, 2001
Volume Editor: Virginia A. Larson, Summer Institute of Linguistics
PAPERBACK
736 Pages
- ISBN-10: 971780009X
- ISBN-13: 9789717800097
THE DICTIONARY ENTRIES HAVE BEEN COLLECTED OFF AND ON OVER A PERIOD OF 20 YEARS (1972-1992) WILE THE COMPILER WAS WORKING ON LINGUISTIC AND TRANSLATION PROJECTS IN MASBETE AS A VOLUNTEER RESEARCHER WITH THE SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS.
THERE ARE ABOUT 5,000 MAJOR ENTRIES INCLUDED IN THIS DICTIONARY AND ANOTHER 1,000 MINOR ENTRIES AS WELL AS AN ENGLISH – MASBATENYO INDEX.
Masbateño or Minasbate is a Bicol-Visayan language spoken by more than 600,000 people, primarily in the province of Masbate in the Philippines. It is very close to Capiznon, Hiligaynon/Ilonggo and Waray-Waray, all three spoken in Visayas. It is considered a Bisakol language, meaning a language intermediate between Visayan languages and Bicolano languages.
| Masbateño | |
|---|---|
| Minasbate | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Masbate province (almost whole portion of Masbate island proper, entire Ticao island and southern half of Burias island) |
| Ethnicity | Masbateño people |
|
Native speakers
|
350,000 (2002)[1] 250,000 L2 speakers Total: 600,000+ speakers |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | msb |
| Glottolog | masb1238[2] |
