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Cebuano (/sɛˈbwɑːnoʊ/ se-BWAH-noh) is an
Austronesian language spoken in the
southern Philippines by
Cebuano people and
other ethnic groups as a secondary...
- The
Cebuano people (Cebuano: Mga
Sugbuanon) are the
largest subgroup of the
larger ethnolinguistic group Visayans, who
constitute the
largest Filipino...
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Cebuano grammar encomp****es the
rules that
define the
Cebuano language, the most
widely spoken of all the
languages in the
Visayan Group of languages,...
- " (Cebuano for 'long live'; cf. "mabuhay"), also
known as "Mabuhi Ka,
Sugbuanon" ("Long Live, Cebuano"), is a song
written and
composed by
Filipino musician...
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accounts surrounding La****pu's origin. One oral
tradition is that the
Sugbuanons of
Opong was once
ruled by a datu
named Mangal and
later succeeded by...
- the
current Central Visayas region,
which is
dominated by the
Cebuano (
Sugbuanon)
ethnic group, to Sugbu, the
former name of the
region prior to Spanish...
- of Cebu. Afterwards,
Rajah Humabon was
baptized along with
about 400
Sugbuanons.
Magellan soon
heard of Datu Lapu-Lapu, a
native chief in
nearby Mactan...
- Magellan's
translator Enrique using Malay to
converse with the
native Sugbuanon (Cebuano)
during this time period. An
example of Old
Malay spoken in Philippine...
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language of
Agusan del Norte; it has also some
vocabulary similarities with
Sugbuanon, Bicolano, and with
other Philippine languages. Many
Malay and Arabic...
- more
likely to
identify themselves with more
specific ethnic names like
Sugbuanon. In
Sucesos de las
Islas Filipinas (1609) by
Antonio de Morga, he specifies...
