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The Waray people (or the Waray-Waray people) are a subgroup of the larger ethnolinguistic group Bisaya people, who constitute the 4th largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. [2] Their primary language is the Waray language (also called Lineyte-Samarnon or Binisaya), an Austronesian language native to the islands of Samar ...
As a people, the Waray identify themselves according to their place of origin. Those who come from Samar call themselves Samareños, while those who come from Leyte call themselves Leyteños. Samar, the third largest island in the Philippines, occupies the northernmost part of Eastern Visayas.
Waray-Waray, any member of a large ethnolinguistic group of the Philippines, living on Samar, eastern Leyte, and Biliran islands. Numbering roughly 4.2 million in the early 21st century, they speak a Visayan (Bisayan) language of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family.
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The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. Moro nation or Moro country). [4]
It is the native language of the Waray people and second language of the Abaknon people of Capul, Northern Samar, and some Cebuano-speaking peoples of western and southern parts of Leyte island. It is the third most spoken language among the Bisayan languages, only behind Cebuano and Hiligaynon.
It is the native language of the Waray people and second language of the Abaknon people of Capul, Northern Samar, and some Cebuano-speaking peoples of western and southern parts of Leyte island. It is the third most spoken language among the Bisayan languages, only behind Cebuano and Hiligaynon.
Waray-Waray is officially recognised as a regional language of the Philippines. It is written with the Latin alphabet, and is used in local government, in television and radio, and in religious contexts.
