Waray

Also known as Lineyte-Samarnon, Waray (Philippines), Winaray, Waray-Waray language, Waray language, Waray-Waray, war

Visayan language primarily spoken in the islands of Samar and Eastern Leyte

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Waray is a language spoken by people living in the Samar and Eastern Leyte islands in the Philippines. It belongs to the Visayan language family and represents an important part of the cultural and linguistic heritage of those island communities.

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ABVD: Waray-Waray

A Database of Basic Austronesian Vocabulary

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 3100000
native label: Binisaya
Wikimedia language code: war
Commons category: Waray language
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/WAR
P10369: Drosera
described at URL: lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=513

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Waray (also known as Waray-Waray or Bisayâ/Binisayâ and Winaray/Waray, Spanish: idioma samareño meaning Samar language) is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern Visayas. It is the native language of the Waray people and second language of the Abaknon people of Capul, Northern Samar, and some Cebuano-speaking peoples of western and southern parts of Leyte island. It is the third most spoken language among the Bisayan languages, only behind Cebuano and Hiligaynon.

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