Alternate Names: Siocon
Dialects: Siocon, Western Kolibugan (Western Kalibugan). Lexical similarity: 89% between Siocon and Western Kolibugan dialects.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 125,000 (2011 SIL).
Language Use: All ages.
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 39%. Literacy rate in L2: 39%. Multilingual education pilot program. Poetry. NT: 1996.
Typology: VSO; prepositions; genitives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, and numerals before noun heads; relatives before noun heads, and relatives without noun heads; question word in sentence-initial position; 2 maximum prefixes, 3 maximum suffixes; word order distinguishes subjects, objects and indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; affixes do not indicate case of noun phrases; verb affixes mark number; ergativity; passives; causatives; comparatives; CV, CVC, CVV, CCV, CCVV, CVVC; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Philippines
Other Comments: Christian.