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.

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  • 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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  • Austronesian
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  • Iriga Bikol
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  • Latin ;
    ''Historically written in Baybayin''
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  • 234,361 (Ethnologue, 2000)
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  • 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.
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  • Iriga Bicolano
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  • Iriga Bikol
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