Software - Windows BD- The Visayan Tutor Special Price $69.95 Regular Price $79.95 Buy Info Visayan Language The Visayan (Bisayan) language is one of the most popular languages of the Philippines. Approximately 24%, or 15 million residents of the Philippines speak Visayan. This is about the same number of people that speak...

Saûn-phaåm  Phaàn giôùi-thieäu  Maãu cuûa moät baøi vaên  Chuyeån-dòch 

Saûn-phaåm

Phaàn giôùi-thieäu

Visayan, with the stress on the second syllable, is a collective term for three closely related yet distinctly different languages spoken mainly on the middle islands of the Philippine archipelago. The three languages are (1) Cebuano, spoken by about 15 million people on Cebu, Bohol, eastern Negros, western Leyte, and northern Mindanao; (2) Hiligaynon, spoken by 6 million people on Panay and western Negros; (3) Samaran, spoken by 3 million people on Samar and eastern Leyte. The passage below is in Cebuano. Like Tagalog, the Visayan languages are of the Malayo-Polynesian family.

Family: Malayo-Polynesian
Subgroup: Indonesian

Maãu cuûa moät baøi vaên

Chuyeån-dòch

Many years ago there was a couple who had a son whom they named John. As John grew up, his parents were happy, believing that now they would have help in the household. The father especially was very happy because now he would have help in gathering firewood which was the means by which he earned his living from day to day.