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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introduced the Visayans to Western musical traditions. In the 17th century, the Spanish historian Francisco Ignacio Alcina wrote that the Visayans learned to...
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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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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 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 hornbill (Penelopides panini) is a hornbill found in tropical moist lowland forests of the Philippines in the Western Visayas region which...
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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 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 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 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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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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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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The Visayan babbler (Sterrhoptilus nigrocapitatus) also known as the Visayan Black-crowned Babbler. is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It...
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The Visayan blue fantail (Rhipidura samarensis) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae. It is endemic to the Philippines on the islands of Bohol...
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List of people from the Davao Region (redirect from Davaoan Visayans)
The Davaoeño people or Davaoeños are the multiethnic permanent residents of the Davao Region of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines regardless of...
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The Visayan cuckooshrike (Coracina panayensis) is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found on the western Visayas of the Philippines...
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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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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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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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