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 • 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
As already made clear, there are but six of the Visayan Islands with which any one interested in the Philippines merely as a student of world politics or of history need bother.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.
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