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Countries

Countries
Philippines

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
Cebuano-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
21 3

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
16 6

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
2 1

Time Taken to Learn
3 weeks 1

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 28

Dialect 2
Southern Kana

Where They Speak
southern Leyte

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00 25

Dialect 3
North Kana

Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00 24

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
20.00 million 42

Speaking Population
0.32 % 40

Native Speakers
21.00 million 36

Second Language Speakers
14.50 million 35

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
62 55

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
-

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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.

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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.

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