Porohanon language

{{Short description|Bisayan language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Porohanon

|states=Philippines

|region=Central Visayas (Camotes Islands, Cebu)

|speakers=23,000

|date=1960

|ref={{cite journal |last1=Wolff |first1=John U. |title=History of the Dialect of the Camotes Islands, Philippines, and the Spread of Cebuano Bisayan |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |date=1967 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=63–79 |doi=10.2307/3622759 |jstor=3622759 |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/3622759 |access-date=8 July 2022|url-access=subscription }}

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Philippine

|fam4=Central Philippine

|fam5=Bisayan

|fam6=Central Bisayan

|fam7=Peripheral

|iso3=prh

|glotto=poro1253

|glottorefname=Porohanon

}}

Porohanon is a regional Bisayan language spoken in the Camotes Islands in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. Its closest relatives are Hiligaynon, Capiznon and Masbateño; it is barely intelligible with Cebuano though it shares 87% of its vocabulary with it.{{e18|prh|Porohanon}} It also retains many older features that Cebuano has lost, such as the use of the genitive marker ahead of the second member of a compounded form, the distinction between a definite and indefinite subject marker, and the distinction between a definite genitive marker and a locative one.