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Noun • Central Bikol

bikol

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Definitions

1.🌐Wiktionary• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bikol

ENGLISH

Bicol (language)

TAGALOG

Bikol

2.📖Mintz Dictionary• Mintz Dictionary, p.92

ENGLISH

Bikol language

Usage

"Nagsasalita ako sa Bikol."

— I speak Bikol.

Etymology

From / ), language}}. The province and river are named in the early Spanish records as Bicol, Vicol, Vicor, Bico. It is believed to have come from either , or , attested as BICOLBICOL in the Vocabulario de la lengua bicol (1865). Compare , attested as "BICOL"/"bicol" in the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1860)

Synonyms

["Wika Bikol""Lenguahe Bikol"]