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Countries

Philippines

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Philippines

Second Language

Philippines

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters

Interesting Facts

About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.

Similar To

Hiligaynon Language

Derived From

Island of Cebu

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 3 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 6 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 1 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

3 weeks

Rank: 1 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Hoy

Thank You

Salamat

How Are You?

Kumusta man ka?

Good Night

Maayong Gabii

Good Evening

Maayong Gabii

Good Afternoon

Maayong Hapon

Good Morning

Maayong Buntag

Please

Palihug

Sorry

Ikasubo ko

Bye

Babay

I Love You

Gihigugma ko ikaw

Excuse Me

Ekskyus mi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Boholano

Where They Speak

Bohol

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.00

Rank: 28 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Southern Kana

Where They Speak

southern Leyte

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.00

Rank: 25 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

North Kana

Where They Speak

northern part of Leyte

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00

Rank: 24 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

20.00 million

Rank: 42 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.32 %

Rank: 40 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

21.00 million

Rank: 36 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

14.50 million

Rank: 35 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Visayan

Alternative Names

Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan

French Name

cebuano

German Name

Cebuano

Pronunciation

[sɛbuˈɑno]

Ethnicity

Cebuano people

History

Origin

16th century

Language Family

Austronesian Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Cebuano

Language Position

Rank: 55 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Cebuano Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data Available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ceb

ISO 639 2/B

ceb

ISO 639 3

ceb

ISO 639 6

ceb

Glottocode

cebu1242

Linguasphere

No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Cebuano

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Cebuano Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Cebuano Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Cebuano. Cebuano phonology gives Cebuano vowels and Cebuano consonants. There are 5 vowels and 16 consonants in Cebuano language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Cebuano is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Cebuano language is given in detail in this section.

All Cebuano countries

Want to explore all Cebuano countries? About Cebuano language serves you with all Cebuano Speaking Countries. Countries that use Cebuano as official language are called as Cebuano countries.

Countries that use Cebuano as their National Language are: Philippines.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Cebuano as second language are: Philippines.

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Learn Cebuano greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Cebuano Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Cebuano language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Cebuano language.Learn Cebuano greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Hoy
Thank you: Salamat
Good Morning: Maayong Buntag
Good Evening: Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon: Maayong Hapon

All Cebuano Language Codes

Get to know all Cebuano language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Cebuano Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.