Bicol is the local dialect. Surprisingly, it constitutes a strange variety in words and in diction among the seventeen municipalities composing the provinces. In some towns, there are clear distinctions of variable terminologies in their use of words to convey their messages as compared with the nearest neighboring towns. What puzzles visitors and tourists are the amazing variations of many words of the same meaning for one object or concept among the people in every town.
Generally, the Bicol dialect spoken in Legazpi and Albay District is the common tongue used. The big alterations of tone and of words arise when one travels away from the city proper.
They also speak Tagalog fluently. English is not difficult for them to communicate with liberal stature.
