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It is the largest Philippine-language Wikipedia by number of articles, ahead of Waray Wikipedia and Tagalog Wikipedia (which as of 19 May 2023 have 1,266,139 and 44,666 articles respectively). Cebuano is the second most spoken language in the Philippines with about 20 million speakers.
Cebuano is the lingua franca of the Central Visayas, western parts of Eastern Visayas, some western parts of Palawan and most parts of Mindanao. The name Cebuano is derived from the island of Cebu, which is the source of Standard Cebuano. [6] Cebuano is also the primary language in Western Leyte — noticeably in Ormoc.
The Cebuano Wikipedia (Cebuano: Wikipedya sa Sinugboanon) is the Cebuano-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition started on June 22, 2005. Cebuano is the second most spoken language in the Philippines. As of May 2023 it has about 6,123,000 articles, most of which are created by Lsjbot.
Cebuano (also referred to as Bisaya) is one of the main languages spoken in the Philippines. About 20,000,000 people speak this language. Cebuano is a member of the Visayan language family.
Cebuano (Binisaya) The language is named after the island of Cebu, where the prestige register is spoken, and is also known as Bisaya, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon or Visayan. Cebuano speakers are known as Cebuano in Cebu, as Bol-anon in Bohol, as Kana in Leyte, and as Binisaga or Bisaya in Mindanao and Luzon.
1 For language/project comparisons see also Wikipedia sitemap and Wikistats 2. Published 1 February 2019 / All data and images on this page are in the public domain. See Also Detailed trends for Cebuano Wikipedia / Stats for all Wikipedia wikis / Wikistats portal
The Cebuano Wikipedia(Cebuano: Wikipedya sa Sinugboanon) is the Cebuano-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition started on June 22, 2005.[2] Cebuano is the second most spoken language in the Philippines. As of October 2022 it has about 6,126,000 articles, most of which are created by Lsjbot.
Cebuano, also called Cebuan or Sugbuhanon, the second largest ethnolinguistic group (after Tagalog) in the Philippines, numbering roughly 16.5 million in the second decade of the 21st century. They speak an Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language and are sometimes grouped with the Hiligaynon and Waray-Waray under the generic name of Visayan (Bisayan) peoples. The Cebuano inhabit the islands ...
But how can Cebuano, with an estimated 20 million speakers, and Swedish, with 10 million speakers, have the 2nd and 3rd highest number of Wikipedia articles? It turns out that there is indeed a catch: most articles for Cebuano and Swedish Wikipedias were not written by humans.
Cebuano is widely spoken in the Central Visayas, as well as Eastern Visayas. It is also the main language in large parts of Mindanao . Hiligaynon (also known as Ilonggo) is widely spoken in Panay and Guimaras , as well as in the central southwestern part of Mindanao.