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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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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 3100000
- native label
- Binisaya
- Wikimedia language code
- war
- Commons category
- Waray language
- P10369
- Drosera
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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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