Boholano dialect

Boholano
Bol-anon, Bisaya, Binisaya
Region Bohol, Southern Leyte and parts of Northern Mindanao and Caraga Region
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog boho1237[1]

Boholano (Cebuano: Binol-anon) is a variant of the Cebuano spoken in the province of Bohol in the Philippines and eastern parts of Southern Leyte, as well as parts of Mindanao, particularly in Northern Mindanao and Caraga Region. It is sometimes improperly described as a separate language[2] even though Binol-anon originated as a dialect continuum of the Cebuano language.[3][4]

Boholano, especially as spoken in central Bohol, can be distinguished from other Cebuano variants by a few phonetic changes:

The Boholano dialects of western Bohol, including Tagbilaran, though, are almost indistinguishable from other dialects near Cebu City. Furthermore, the phonetic changes detailed above, especially the latter two, can also be observed in the Cebu City dialect.

History

The Bol-anon developed in the region after the Cebuano language arrived there from Cebu. Cebuano in turn was spoken since Proto-Austronesian (ca. 6000 years ago) in the Sugbu heartland[3] and then "has spread from its base in Cebu" to Bohol thus began the Bohol Cebuano dialect.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Boholano". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/boholano-info.php
  3. 1 2 "John Woff, "Cebuano" in Facts About the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present (New York: H. W. Wilson, 2001). https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ceb_detail-2
  4. 1 2 http://www.gutenberg.ph/previews/wolff/WCED-complete.pdf

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