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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Philippines > Porohanon

Porohanon

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3prh

Population  23,000.
Region  Camotes Islands.
Language map  Southern Philippines, reference number 82
Alternate names   Camotes
Dialects  Barely intelligible with Cebuano [ceb] (1967 J. Wolff). More similar to Masbatenyo [msb] and Hiligaynon [hil]. Lexical similarity: 87% with Cebuano [ceb](1967 J. Wolff).
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Greater Central Philippine, Central Philippine, Bisayan, Central, Peripheral