Bisayan

But they almost universally talk the Bisayan, which is common and peculiar to Zibù, the head of the other provinces called Pintados.

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Tagalog and Bisayan the letter "n" is dropped and the word is pronounced "be-lat'-ic."

Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed

An analogous method appears in the formation of the tens in the Bisayan, [146] one of the Malay numeral scales, where 30, 40, ... 90, are constructed from 3, 4, ... 9, by adding the termination _-an_.

The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Levi Leonard Conant

Bisayan as well as the Tagalan -- saw these large quantities of cloth brought by the Sangleys, and that these were so cheap, they were unwilling to weave cloth, as they were wont to do before the Spaniards had come and before the Sangleys brought cloth to them.

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The father provincial established religious in the island of Panay, which, as it was of the Bisayan language, he was not willing to abandon.

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Bisayan warriors, with their cannon and all necessary supplies; and the said governor detailed Sargento-mayor Nicolas Gonzales to pursue the enemy.

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While father Fray Lúcas de la Reina, who was one of the foremost religious in the Bisayan province -- a fine linguist, and one who added much to the sacristies, and was very discerning in things pertaining to the altar -- was prior in the same village, he heard that a wretched mestizo woman in his district was leading a dissolute life; for on that occasion the encomendero Don Agustín Flores was there.

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He was equally versed in Tagál and the Bisayan speech.

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On reaching the Philippines he was assigned to the Bisayan group, and was known to those natives by the name of "the apostle of Panay."

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The language used there is much like the Bisayan, for one can cross from this town of

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