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Preferred term

cebCebuano  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Cebuano, referred to by most of its speakers as Bisaya (or Visayan in English), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people mostly in the Central Visayas. It is the most widely spoken of the languages within the so-named Bisayan subgroup and is closely related to other Filipino languages. It has the largest native language speaking population of the Philippines despite not being taught formally in schools and universities. It is the lingua franca of the Central Visayas and parts of Mindanao. The name Cebuano is derived from the island of Cebu where the prestige dialect is spoken.

Entry terms

  • Cebuano language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • ceb

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • ceb

ISO 639-3 code

  • ceb

Notation

  • ceb

In other languages

  • Cebuano

    French

  • cebuano
  • Cebuano

    German

  • cebuano

    Italian

  • Lingua cebuana
  • cebuano

    Portuguese

  • Língua cebuana
  • cebuano

    Spanish

  • Idioma cebuano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ceb

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