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- No, Bisaya and Tagalog are not the same. Tagalog is the national language of the Philippines, while Bisaya refers to the Visayan languages spoken in the Visayas and Mindanao regions.
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However the bisaya that’s mutually intelligible between Cebu, Mindanao, and Bohol is Cebuano Bisaya. Mindanao and Bohol folks though don’t want to call it Cebuano because that would infer they’re from Cebu and they want to separate from that. So technically, Cebuano is Bisaya, Bisaya is not just Cebuano.
DocMowgli. • 5 mo. ago • Edited 5 mo. ago. The difference depends on who you talk to. There is a Visayan group of languages that include Cebuano (many just call it Bisaya), Waray, Ilongo (Hiligaynon) and others. They are in the same language family, but they are not mutually intelligible.
It is natively, though informally, called by its generic term Bisayâ or Binisayâ (both terms are translated into English as Visayan, though this should not be confused with other Bisayan languages, and locally written without the accent marks) [a] and sometimes referred to in English sources as Cebuan ( / sɛˈbuːən / seb-OO-ən ).
- 22 million (2010)
The Bisayan language with the most speakers is Cebuano, spoken by 20 million people as a native language in Central Visayas, parts of Eastern Visayas, and most of Mindanao. Two other well-known and widespread Bisayan languages are Hiligaynon (Ilonggo), spoken by 9 million in most of Western Visayas and Soccsksargen; and Waray-Waray, spoken by 6 ...
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Yes, Bisaya may also refer to the language spoken. Just like Filipino, the people; and Filipino, the language. On the other hand, Binisaya is literally “in Bisaya” just like “Tinagalog” (“in Tagalog”) or “Iningles” (“in English”). This can also refer to the language.
Feb 10, 2011 · Whenever a person or a language is called Bisaya (lang. Binisaya), it is a common notion or it would immediately refer to Cebuano despite the fact that there are many languages in the Visayas which in general are called Visayan or Binisaya. Is Bisaya any different from Cebuano? How do they differ?
Both these works demonstrate that the term Bisaya was used as a general term for Visayans by the Spanish. [9] Another general term for Visayans in early Spanish records is Hiligueinos (also spelled Yliguenes, Yligueynes, or Hiligueynos; from Visayan Iligan or Iliganon, meaning "people of the coast").
