Visayan

American  

[vi-sahy-uhn] / vɪˈsaɪ ən /

noun

plural

Visayans,

plural

Visayan

1. one of a Malay people, the most numerous Indigenous people of the Philippines.

2. the language of this people, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.

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Visayan British  

/ vɪˈsɑːjən /

noun

1. a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines

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adjective

1. of or relating to this people

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, other wild pig species, such as the pygmy hog of India and the Visayan warty pig of the Philippines, both critically endangered, are also at risk.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2023

On the campaign trail, Duterte-Carpio banters with her audience and switches easily back and forth between Tagalog, effectively the national language, and Visayan, a language of the central and southern Philippines and her mother tongue.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

Ibarra closed with her best-known song, “Us,” rapped in English, Tagalog and another Filipino language, Visayan.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2021

Mr. Duterte made the remarks in a speech to former rebels last week, but the comments went largely unreported because he was speaking in his native Visayan language.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2018

I have baptized a few Atás, by making myself understood in Visayan or Bagobo.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various