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Visayan

noun Vi·sa·yan \ və-ˈsī-ən \
variants: or less commonly play \bə-ˈsī-ən\

Definition of Visayan

1 : a member of any of several peoples in the Visayan Islands, Philippines
2 : the group of Austronesian languages of the Bisayans

First Known Use of visayan

1951

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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