Visayan

American  

[vi-sahy-uhn] / vɪˈsaɪ ən /

noun

Visayans, plural Visayan plural

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

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Visayan
  plural
• Visayans
  plural

Example Sentences

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Visayan Visayans

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, he noted, is not a native speaker of the Filipino language but of Visayan, which is spoken mainly in the southern and central Philippines.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019

Two weeks after landfall, Magellan held the country’s first Mass on the island of Limasawa, located in the Visayan Islands.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Aboard her were a few commercial men, headed south for stops in the Visayans and Mindanao, and a great many men, women and children who wanted only to leave Japanese-bombed Manila.

From Time Magazine Archive

Army troops; 12,000 crack, professional Philippine Scouts, as good as soldiers come; 100,000 Filipino reservists who had quit the villages of Mindanao, the Visayans and Luzon to shoulder rifles.

From Time Magazine Archive

For defense, the Philippines group themselves into three sectors: Mindanao, the Visayans and Luzon.

From Time Magazine Archive

The narrow, treacherous outer passages of the Visayans can be mined, and in protected inner passages light naval craft could lie in relative security between sorties against an invader.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Visayans also make a wine, called pañgasi, from rice.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 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 by Blair, Emma Helen