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The exact meaning and origin of the name Bisaya is unknown. The first documented use of the name is possibly by Song-era Chinese maritime official Zhao Rugua who wrote about the "Pi-sho-ye", who raided the coasts of Fujian and Penghu during the late 12th century using iron javelins attached to ropes as their weapons. [3] [4] [5]
Bisaya is an indigenous people from the northwest coast of East Malaysia on the island of Borneo.Their population is concentrated around Beaufort as well as Kuala Penyu districts of southern Sabah (in which they are counted under the Kadazan-Dusun group of peoples), Labuan Federal Territory and in Limbang District, Sarawak (in which they are grouped under the Orang Ulu designation).
The Cebuano language is spoken by more than twenty million people in the Philippines and is the most widely spoken of the Visayan languages. Most speakers of Cebuano are found in Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, southeastern Masbate, Biliran , Western and Southern Leyte, eastern Negros and most of Mindanao except Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim ...
The term Bisaya broadly refers to the people of the Visayas region in the Philippines, as well as those who have migrated to other parts of the country, including Luzon and Mindanao. The Visayas region encompasses several ethnolinguistic groups and languages, including Hiligaynon , Cebuano , Waray , and others, which are distinct and not ...
The term "Waray" refers both to the people and the language of Samar and Leyte, [18] and means "nothing" in the Waray language. It is unclear how it became the language's name. [2] According to the Sanghiran sang Binisaya (Council for the Visayan Language), the formal name of the language is Lineyte-Samarnon or Binisaya. [2]
Butuanons number about 1,420,000. They are the descendants of Austronesian-speaking immigrants who came from South China during the Iron Age. The native language of Butuanons is the Butuanon language, but most younger Butuanon nowadays primarily speak the Cebuano language, because of the mass influx of Cebuano settlers to Mindanao, and Filipino and English as second or third languages.
The islands are managed by the Banguingui people. [4] The name "Once Islas", meaning "eleven islands" is in the Chavacano language. [3] The islands open to tourists are Baung-Baung, Bisaya-Bisaya, Buh-Buh and Sirommon, and the others are Baguias, Kabugan, Lambang-Lambang, Lampinigan, Panganak, Sallangan and Simaddang. [3]
Bisaya may refer to: Bisaya people, a.k.a. Visayans, a Philippine ethnolinguistic group; Bisaya (Borneo), an ethnic group in Borneo; Bisayan languages, or Visayan languages, a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines Cebuano language, a language spoken in the southern Philippines, natively, though informally, called "Bisaya"