Everything about The Cebuano People totally explained
The
Cebuano people usually refers to those whose native tongue is
Cebuano, but more specifically the people who live in the province of
Cebu. The Cebuano are the largest subset of the
Visayan ethnolinguistic group and the largest migrant Filipino ethnic group in Mindanao which, in turn, is the largest
ethnolinguistic group of the
Philippines.
Languages
The
Cebuano language is the most common indigenous language spoken in the Visayas region. It is spoken particularly in
Cebu,
Bohol,
Negros Oriental, and
Siquijor. It is also spoken in some parts of
Leyte,
Southern Leyte,
Surigao del Norte,
Surigao del Sur,
Misamis Occidental,
Misamis Oriental,
Lanao del Norte,
Zamboanga del Norte,
Zamboanga del Sur,
Zamboanga Sibugay,
Camiguin,
Agusan del Norte,
Agusan del Sur,
Davao del Norte,
Davao Oriental,
Davao del Sur,
Cotabato,
South Cotabato,
Sarangani,
Sultan Kudarat, as well as in
Bukidnon. Estimates of Cebuano speakers range from
15 to 20 million.
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Other languages spoken, includes
Spanish,
English,
Chinese,
Chabacano (in Zamboanga Region), and
Tagalog.
Demographics
Linguistically and ethnically, Cebuanos are principally of
Austronesian people descent. In major cities like
Cebu,
Cagayan de Oro and
Davao, some have
Spanish and
Chinese ancestries, as well as ancestries from other Filipino ethnolinguistic groups like the Tagalogs and Ilokanos. Cebuanos in Mindanao, who would rather be called
Bisaya than Cebuano, occasionally have some
Lumad,
Butuanon, and
Surigaonon, and even
Moro ancestry. Cebuano-speakers make up about 1/4 of the Philippines population, of about 85 million.
Culture
Much of the Cebuano culture has been influenced by the
Spanish culture and indigenous Philippine traditions. The majority of its people belong to the
Roman Catholic religion. However, chinese religion have slowly seeped in and formed part of the growing religious groups in Cebu. Evidence of this is the large number of Chinese temples found in the region.
History
The word Cebuano is a Hispanicized term derived from the
Old Malay word Zugboanon. The name of Cebu was given to the Islands of Zugbo (where Hispanicized name Cebu came from) during the Spanish colonization of the Islands, which lasted for more than three centuries. Cebuanos originated from Austronesian-speaking settlers from
South China who settled Cebu, Negros Oriental, and Mindanao during the
Iron Age. In Mindanao, descendants of Cebuanos, along with other Visayans native to Mindanao—Butuanons and Surigaonons, were concentrated in the north in pre-Christian time, but the Cebuano-speaking population in Mindanao grew in most of Mindanao from the first years in the time of Christ and immigrants from Cebu, Bohol, and Negros Oriental to Mindanao from Spanish colonial times to first years of independence, and this population increase pushed all Mindanao natives to the rural interior and west Mindanao, made Cebuano the
lingua franca of Mindanao and its speakers, now more commonly identifying as Visayans rather than Cebuanos, the largest Christian population in the island. The Cebuanos were among the first Austronesian inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago to encounter
Europeans and the first to be baptized as
Roman Catholic by the
Portuguese explorers and Spanish
conquistadors.
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