Cebuano

AES status: not endangered

Statutory language of provincial identity in Cebu Province, 4 other areas (1991, ACFLC Section 3(f)).

It is spoken by the Visayan ethnolinguistic groups native to the islands of Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, the eastern half of Negros, the western half of Leyte, the northern coastal areas of Northern Mindanao and the eastern part of Zamboanga del Norte due to Spanish settlements during the 18th century.

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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.

Central Visayas, almost all of Negros Island Region, western parts of Eastern Visayas, and most parts of Mindanao

The earliest record of the Cebuano language was first documented in a list of words compiled by Antonio Pigafetta, an Italian explorer who was part of Ferdinand Magellan's 1521 expedition.

Malayo-Polynesian

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