Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Philippines
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hiligaynon Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Island of Cebu
  
Alphabets in
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Cebuano-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Hoy
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Kumusta man ka?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Maayong Hapon
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Maayong Buntag
  
Please
Please
  
Palihug
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Ikasubo ko
  
Bye
Bye
  
Babay
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Ekskyus mi
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Boholano
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Bohol
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Southern Kana
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
southern Leyte
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
North Kana
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
northern part of Leyte
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
14.50 million
  
19
Native Name
English
  
Visayan
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
French Name
anglais
  
cebuano
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Cebuano
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Cebuano people
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
16th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Standard Cebuano
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
cebu1242
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available