Porohanon
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Porohanon are the people of Poro island, Cebu in the Philippines
. They are part of the wider Visayan ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. They speak the Porohanon language
, and Cebuano
as their second language.
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. They are part of the wider Visayan ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. They speak the Porohanon language
Porohanon language
Porohanon is a Visayan language spoken in the Camotes Islands in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. Its closest relatives are Hiligaynon and Masbateño and is barely intelligible with Cebuano though it shares 87% of its vocabulary with it....
, and Cebuano
Cebuano language
Cebuano, referred to by most of its speakers as Bisaya , is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people mostly in the Central Visayas. It is the most widely spoken of the languages within the so-named Bisayan subgroup and is closely related to other Filipino...
as their second language.