Austronesian family
Cebuano
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Cebuano (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Cebuano.
See Cebuano on the interactive map- Speakers
- 16M (16,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- ceb
- Glottocode
- cebu1242
Bisayan language of the central Philippines. Speaker count is L1 only. Philippine subgroup node not tracked (its validity is debated).
Lineage
- Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
- Cebuanoc. 1500 CE – today
Sister languages 9
Also descended from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.