Bikol

or Bi·col

[ bee-kohl ]

noun

, plural Bi·kols, (especially collectively) Bi·kol.

1. a member of a Malayan people in SE Luzon and the nearby Philippines: converted to Christianity early in the Spanish conquest.
2. the Austronesian language of the Bikol people.

Example Sentences

I shall not attempt here to estimate the proportion of Negrito blood in the Christian peoples of the Philippines—Bisaya, Bikol, Tagalog, Ilokano, etc.—further than to express my conviction that in certain regions it is very large and has greatly modified the primitive Malayan type.

From Project Gutenberg