Porohanon language

Porohanon
Native toPhilippines
RegionCentral Visayas (Camotes Islands, Cebu)
Native speakers
(23,000 cited 1960)
Language codes
ISO 639-3prh
Glottologporo1253

Porohanon is a regional Bisayan language spoken in the Camotes Islands in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. Its closest relatives are Hiligaynon, Capiznon and Masbateño; it is barely intelligible with Cebuano though it shares 87% of its vocabulary with it. It also retains many older features that Cebuano has lost, such as the use of the genitive marker ahead of the second member of a compounded form, the distinction between a definite and indefinite subject marker, and the distinction between a definite genitive marker and a locative one.