Visayan
Americannoun
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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.
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adjective
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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 • 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
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