Visayans (Visayan: mga Bisaya; local pronunciation: [bisaˈjaʔ]) or Visayan people are a Philippine ethnolinguistic family group or metaethnicity native...
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Visayas (redirect from Visayan Islands)
The Visayas (/vɪˈsaɪəz/ viss-EYE-əz), or the Visayan Islands (Visayan: Kabisay-an, locally [kabiˈsajʔan]; Filipino: Kabisayaan [kɐbɪsɐˈjaʔan]), are one...
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The Visayan Sea is a sea in the Philippines surrounded by the islands of the Visayas. It is bounded by the islands Masbate to the north, Panay to the...
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Bisayan languages (redirect from Visayan language)
The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog...
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The Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons) is a critically endangered species in the pig genus (Sus). It is endemic to six of the Visayan Islands (Cebu, Negros...
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Baybayin (redirect from Visayan alphabet)
modern times, baybayin has been called badlit, kudlít-kabadlit by the Visayans, kurditan, kur-itan by the Ilocanos, and basahan by the Bicolanos.[self-published...
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The Visayan hornbill (Penelopides panini) is a hornbill found in rainforests of Western Visayas region which includes the islands of Panay, Negros,Cebu...
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Waray language (redirect from Waray-Waray / Samar-Leyte Visayan language)
language as simply being a dialect of "Visayan". In contrast, most contemporary linguists consider many of these "Visayan dialects" (e.g., Cebuano, Hiligaynon...
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Latik (redirect from Visayan latik)
to two different coconut-based ingredients in Filipino cuisine. In the Visayan region it refers to a syrupy caramelized coconut cream (coconut caramel)...
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Bisaya (Borneo) (redirect from Bornean Visayan)
parliament for Beaufort twice from 2004 to 2008 and again from 2013 to 2022 Visayan, a major ethnic group of the Philippines with a similar endonym "Tutong...
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The Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi), also known as the Visayan deer, the Philippine spotted deer or Prince Alfred's deer, is a small, endangered, primarily...
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The Visayan leopard cat, known locally as maral, is a Sunda leopard cat (Prionailurus javanensis sumatranus) population in the Philippine Islands of Negros...
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Penelopides (redirect from Visayan Tarictic)
of the hornbills. The type species was subsequently designated as the Visayan hornbill (Penelopides panini) by the English zoologist George Gray. The...
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Walden's hornbill (redirect from Visayan Wrinkled Hornbill)
hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) locally called dulungan, also known as the Visayan wrinkled hornbill, rufous-headed hornbill or writhe-billed hornbill, is...
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The Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters (Cebuano: Akademyang Bisaya) is a Philippine language regulator whose aims are to preserve and to develop the...
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Abakada alphabet (redirect from Visayan orthography)
The Abakada alphabet was an "indigenized" Latin alphabet adopted for the Tagalog-based Wikang Pambansa (now Filipino) in 1939. The alphabet, which contains...
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The Visayan babbler (Sterrhoptilus nigrocapitatus), formerly conspecific with the Calabarzon babbler, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae...
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Witchcraft in the Philippines (redirect from Barang (Visayan word))
Some of these are as follow: Ilocano: tanem, tamay Tagalog: kulam, gaway Visayan: barang, hiwit, lágà, haplit, paktol, anyaw Moro: pantak Filipino witches...
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The timawa were the feudal warrior class of the ancient Visayan societies of the Philippines. They were regarded as higher than the uripon (commoners...
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Suckling pig (redirect from Visayan lechon)
A suckling pig is a piglet fed on its mother's milk (i.e., a piglet which is still a "suckling"). In culinary contexts, a suckling pig is slaughtered between...
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The Visayan pygmy babbler (Dasycrotapha pygmaea) is a bird species endemic to the Philippines on the islands of Leyte and Samar. It was conspecific with...
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The Visayan rhabdornis (Rhabdornis rabori) is a species of bird currently placed in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is endemic to the central Philippines...
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Philippine tailorbird (redirect from Visayan tailorbird)
The Philippine tailorbird (Orthotomus castaneiceps) is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family...
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The Visayan bulbul (Hypsipetes guimarasensis) or Steere's bulbul, is a songbird species in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is endemic to the western...
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Visayan Force is a US Forces in the Philippines subcommand which was created and took effect on March 17, 1942, after General Douglas MacArthur departed...
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The Visayan broadbill (Sarcophanops samarensis) is a species of bird in the family Eurylaimidae where it was previously conspecific with the wattled broadbill...
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or Binisayâ ([biniːsaˈjaʔ]) (both terms are translated into English as Visayan, though this should not be confused with other Bisayan languages) and sometimes...
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The Visayan miniature babbler (Micromacronus leytensis) or the Leyte plumed-warbler is a bird species in the family Cisticolidae. It is endemic to the...
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Kalibo (redirect from Northwestern Visayan Colleges)
established after the war: Aklan Catholic College (1945), and Northwestern Visayan Colleges (1948). On November 8, 1956, the province of Aklan was officially...
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The giant Visayan frog (Limnonectes visayanus) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the Philippines, and is known from...
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