Visayan
Americannoun
plural
Visayans,plural
Visayan-
one of a Malay people, the most numerous Indigenous people of the Philippines.
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the language of this people, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.
noun
adjective
Example Sentences
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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
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
Ibarra closed with her best-known song, “Us,” rapped in English, Tagalog and another Filipino language, Visayan.
From Los Angeles Times
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
Speaking in his native Visayan dialect, Duterte was recalling an order he said he had given to troops when he was mayor of Davao City.
From Reuters
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