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)
and to advertise their products. Visayans are known for their different festivals celebrated in other cities of Visayan Island. Sinulog Festival is celebrated...
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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)
reconstructed by Zorc. Bisalog Bislish Bisakol languages Classical Cebuano Visayans Adelaar, Alexander (2005). "The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar:...
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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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The Visayan fantail (Rhipidura albiventris) is a fantail endemic to the Philippines on islands of Negros, Panay, Guimaras, Masbate and Ticao. Until recently...
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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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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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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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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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Bisaya (Borneo) (redirect from Bornean Visayans)
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 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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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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Visayan Electric Company, Inc., also known as Visayan Electric (formerly VECO), is the second largest electric utility in the Philippines and serves the...
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The Visayan shama (Copsychus superciliaris) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is endemic to Ticao, Masbate, Negros, and Panay in the...
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Madja-as (category Visayan people)
their health." The Visayans are physically different from the Malays of Luzon, and can be distinguished by the fact that Visayans are fairer in complexion...
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The Visayan miniature babbler (Micromacronus leytensis) is a bird species in the family Cisticolidae. It was for a long time the only member of the genus...
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Cebuano people (category Visayan people)
Sugbuanon) are the largest subgroup of the larger ethnolinguistic group Visayans, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group in the country...
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Baybayin (redirect from Visayan alphabet)
characters, and from them the Visayans, so they call them Moro characters or letters because the Moros taught them... [the Visayans] learned [the Moros'] letters...
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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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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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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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The Visayan pygmy babbler (Dasycrotapha pygmaea) is a bird species endemic to the Philippines (Leyte and Samar). It belongs to the genus Dasycrotapha...
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The Visayan blue fantail (Rhipidura samarensis) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae. It is endemic to the eastern Visayas (Philippines) :...
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Samar-Leyte-Visayans, the Institute's members were composed of Santiago A. Fonacier (representing the Ilokano-speaking regions), Filemon Sotto (the Cebu-Visayans)...
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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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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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census, the Philippines' largest ethnic groups were Tagalog (26.0 percent), Visayans [excluding the Cebuano, Hiligaynon and Waray] (14.3 percent), Ilocano and...
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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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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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