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Cebuano, also known as Bisaya, Visayan, Binisayâ and
Sugbuanon, is a
member of
the Western, or Indonesian, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family.
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closely related to the
Hiligayon (Ilongo) and Waray languages, with
which it is sometimes grouped as dialects of a Visayan (Bisayan) language.
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Native Cebuano speakers
constitute about one-fourth of the population of the Philippines and as such
comprise the largest linguistic and cultural group in the country.
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spoken by almost
15 million
people (1990 census, about 24.4%
of the population of Philippines), in the regions of Negros, Cebu,
Bohol, Visayas and parts of Mindanao.
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The name came from the Philippine island of Cebu, with the Spanish suffix -ano
meaning native, of a place, added at the end. Cebuano is given the ISO 639-2
code ceb.
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Cebuano is a language with Verb-Subject-Object sentence order. It uses
prepositions rather than postpositions. Nouns come after adjectives, but
before genitives or relative phrases.
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Cebuano has long borrowed words from
Spanish, such as krus (cross) and
brilyante (brilliant). It has several hundreds of loan words from
English as
well, which are altered to conform to the limited phonemic inventory of Cebuano: brislit (bracelet), hayskul (high school), syapin (shopping),
dikstrus (dextrose), sipir (zipper), bigsyat (big shot), or prayd tsikin
(fried chicken).
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Cebuano has sixteen consonants: p, t, k, ? (the glottal stop), b, d,
g, m, n, ng, s, h, w, l, r and y. There are three vowels: i, a, and
u/o. The vowels u and o are
allophones, with u always being used when it is the
beginning of a syllable, and o always used when it
ends a syllable. Accent is also a distinguisher of words, so that
dápit means "to invite", while dapít means "place".
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Cebuano
Bible (2.8 MB) -
The "HTML Bible" download
contains the entire Bible with each chapter as a web page in a single
Zipped file. These are plain ASCII text .htm files, suitable for
almost any platform. To use, you must save and unzip the .zip file
using PKUNZIP or Winzip, which you can get an evaluation copy from
www.winzip.com
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Cebuano Bible
(3.3 MB) -
The "SpeedBible" download contains
a single file that does not have to be unzipped, but requires that you
save the file and open with Internet Explorer 4.0 or better to use. It
is in the Microsoft "HTML Help" format, as used on MSDN. The "SpeedBible"
has a search engine, Index, Table of Contents, and is good for a
standalone PC.
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The Cebuano Language
Atlas - An interactive
atlas with 700 bibliographic records on the Cebuano language.
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Cebuano Language
Internet Broadcast -
Sponsored by Bible Radio Network.
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