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As of the 2020 (but released in 2023) statistics released by the Philippine Statistics Authority, the current number of households that speak Cebuano is approximately 1.72 million and around 6.5% of the country's population speak it inside their home. However, in a journal published in 2020, the number of speakers is estimated to be 15.9 ...
Sep 10, 2016 · The three languages most commonly cited as what they primarily use at home are Filipino, Cebuano, and Hiligaynon. In the aggregate of the last 10 national Social Weather Surveys, from the start of 2014, Filipino is cited as the language of the home by 37.8 percent.
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Cebuano is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines. It is natively, though informally, called by its generic term Bisayâ or Binisayâ and sometimes referred to in English sources as Cebuan.
It is estimated that there are 15.8 million people in the Philippines who speak Cebuano as their first language. . It is the second most spoken language in the Philippines after Tagalog. Cebuano is used as the medium of instruction in Grades I and II.
More than 28 million people speak this language. Cebuano is a member of the Visayan language family. While Tagalog has more speakers than any other language in the Philippines today, Cebuano was the most widely spoken language in the Philippines from the 1950s until the 1980s.
Cebuano is spoken in the Philippines by the Visayan ethnolinguistic groups native to the islands of Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, the eastern half of Negros, the western half of Leyte, and the northern coastal areas of Northern Mindanao and the Zamboanga Peninsula. In modern times, it has also spread to the Davao Region, Cotabato, Camiguin, parts of ...
In 2010 there were about 22 million speakers of Cebuano. The language is named after the island of Cebu, where the prestige register is spoken, and is also known as Bisaya, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon or Bisayan.
