{"id":722,"date":"2023-01-29T18:51:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T18:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cebuinsider.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2023-02-02T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T08:41:18","slug":"cebuano-bisaya-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cebuinsider.com\/cebuano-bisaya-words\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Cebuano\/Bisaya Words and Phrases to Learn While Visiting Cebu, Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bisaya is one of the 8 major dialects in the Philippines. It\u2019s the most common language in the Visayas and Mindanao where you are most likely to be visiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are heading to Cebu, Bohol, Dumaguete, Siquijor, and the surrounding areas, please don\u2019t throw \u201cMabuhay!\u201d around 5 times a day. Guaranteed, you\u2019ll like a fool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong. It\u2019s a beautiful word to welcome you to the Philippines, but it must remain at the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For starters, Cebuano and Bisaya are used interchangeably. You can use Cebuano or Bisaya to refer to the language spoken in Cebu or the person who lives in Cebu. If a person lives in Manila or Davao City in Mindanao and speaks the language, that person can be identified as Cebuano or Bisaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning some basic words or phrases in the Cebuano or Bisaya language is honestly pretty simple. Our alphabet is the same as the English language with subtle differences in pronunciation, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re teaching you here as well. The key here is to learn patterns of how the vowels are pronounced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the word apple is read as \u02c8ap(\u0259)l in American English. If a Bisaya will read the word apple, it will become \u00e4-pool. In Bisaya, Cebu is pronounced see\u00b7boo, not se\u026a\u00b7boo as you would hear American YouTubers say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please note that the words\/phrases\/sentences mentioned here are primarily used in Cebu, the origin of the Cebuano or Bisaya language, which has spilled all over most parts of Visayas and Mindanao where they have certain variations. Nevertheless, you can learn the words and phrases here and still be understood outside Cebu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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