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Rinconada phrasebook

Rinconada is the main language spoken in Rinconada District of Camarines Sur, Philippines. The language retains the proto-Philippine schwa vowel /ə/ that has disappeared in most Philippine languages like Cebuano, Tagalog and even the neighboring Coastal Bikol language.

It belongs to the Austronesian language family that also includes most Philippine languages, the Formosan languages of Taiwanese aborigines, Malay, Indonesian, the Polynesian languages and Malagasy.

Pronunciation guideIn Rinconada, two consecutive vowels are pronounced separately.
Phrase listSee Wikivoyage:Pseudo-phoneticization guide for guidance on the phoneticizations below
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