Bikol

The Bikol languages, also called Bicolano, are a group of Central Philippine languages spoken mainly in the Bicol Peninsula in the southeastern part of Luzon, as well as on Catanduanes island and Burias island, with roughly 4.4 million native speakers as of a 1990 count. Sources differ on how to organize the roughly 36 languages and dialects of the group, with Ethnologue, a 1974 classification by McFarland and a 2000 classification by Lobel each dividing them somewhat differently, though a broad split into Coastal Bikol, Inland Bikol and Pandan Bikol is common. The languages are also noted for a distinctive angry register, a specialized sociolinguistic form used for emphatic or hostile speech.