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Visayan
[ vi-sahy-uhn ]
noun
- one of a Malay people, the most numerous Indigenous people of the Philippines.
- the language of this people, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.
Visayan
/ vɪˈsɑːjən /
noun
- a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines
adjective
- of or relating to this people
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Example Sentences
During the evening the natives gave a Visayan dance, called in the native tongue “A Courtship.”
One would hardly recognize the waltz or two-step as performed by the Visayan.
He had the cook's mouth pried open in determined endeavor to ram what looked like half a chicken down the Visayan's gullet.
The old man was spokesman and in his native visayan tongue made a heart-rending appeal for aid which we were powerless to give.
The Bengali tale can hardly be the direct source of our Visayan form, but it appears to be fairly closely related to that source.
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