- Refers the teaching,
the Cebuano-v
language
MALAYO-POLYNESIAN
LANGUAGE
 Origin of the Cebuano-Visayan
Language.
 Spoken by the Austronesian people.
o They reside outside of Taiwan,
of the Island nations of
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Ocean.
o With a smaller number in
continental Asia in the areas
near the Malay Peninsula.
 It’s also known as Sugbuanon,
Bisayan or Visayan, Binisaya or
Bisaya
CEBUANO VISAYAN
 A language spoken by 2/3 of the
Philippine population.
 A lingua franca in Central and
Southern Philippines.
o Has more than 20,000
speakers of the language.
o In Cebu, Bohol, some areas in
Samar, and also in the regions
of Mindanao.
 Lingua franca
o Pronounced as LING-was
FRAN-ka.
o A language or mixture of
languages used as a medium
of communication by people
whose native languages are
different.
o From the Italian, “language” +
“Frankish”
o Also known as trade language,
contact language, international
language, and global language.
 The term English as lingua
franca (ELF)
learning, and use of the
English language as a
common means of
communication for
speakers different native
languages.
 Cebuano Visayan is a phonetic
language.
o 3 vowels: a, i, u
o 15 consonants: p, t, k, b, d, g,
m, n, ng, s, h, w, l, r, y
o Pesirla (2019) in Pagpalambu
sa Pinulungan’g Sugbu-anun’g
Binisaya: points out that the
Cebuano-Visayan language
maintains a phoneme-
grapheme correspondence
- in which all the words are
spelled as sounded.
- Hence all three vowels and
fifteen consonants are spelled
as pronounced.
 Sentence Structure
o “A Cebuano Visayan sentence
is made up of at least two
grammatical constituents, the
topic/subject and the
predicate, both of which can
be expanded.”
o Generally, it is a predicate-
construct language.
- Sentences in Cebuano
Visayan start with the
predicate and end with the
subject.
 Milkaw si Juan.
 Muadtu kita sa bukid.