#bisayan

[notcaptainjack]

[freakinator]

a pet peeve of main is when ppl conflate tagalog with filipino cause as close as they are they are nawt the same

[karinyosa]

my family were cowards for not teaching me their languages bro i could've been quadro-lingual

[crabs-but-better]

new job gave me a hanger for my name tag that says i speak spanish and my first thought was “chat the colonizers won again ✊😔”

[tomatoteddy]

"Huh? Who am I? Who am I?!? Silly, I am the greatest star amongst the Phillipines Sea, the great Kuminang! Remember it, because you will be hearing it a lot from now on".

I made another oc + a new layaout for the charactr profiles… Can you tell I really like making characters? Anyways I always need to find an excuse to make at least one Filipino oc for every fandom I’m in so here y’all go!!

Kuminang (meaning: shine/sparkle in Tagalog) is as stated above, a pretty haughty and vain young lady, often bossing and ordering people around and acting like a spoiled princess. Despite that though, she really values hard working and passionate people, so she’ll tend to be nicer to people like that. She’s very passionate about music and singing, often spending hours practicing in her room. Strangely though, she doesn’t talk about her past a lot, which makes her a hot topic of discussion amongst newspapers.

Trivia

She’s based off this Filipino folktale I remember hearing about, where the sky used to be close to the ground. A spinster (sometimes it was a giant, sometimes she’s described as pretty but vain) placed her comb and necklace atop the sky while she was pounding rice. But everytime she raised the mortar, she’d hit the sky and she’d hit it so hard she’s cause it to go up everytime. So she basically caused the sky to rise up higher and higher, and her comb became the moon and her necklace the stars. (I’ve always loved this tale since I was a kid cause I loved stars and space, so naturally I had to make an oc based off of it).

I really wanted her udimo to be some sort of aquatic animal since I always associated aquatic animals with space, especially whales. Kuminang also used to live in a fishing town before she moved to Manila, so I imagine that even if she prefers to not talk about her past, she still feels nostalgic about the sea.

I imagine her to be a DPS/Support. I’m not too well versed in the combat/fighting side of games usually besides “this attack makes big damage”, so I may be a bit iffy when it comes to my ocs incantations and skills 😅😅 But I imagine her Counter incantation lets her counter-attack any enemies that attack her, similar to J’s if you get what I mean.

Kuminang is actually a trans girl and came from an unsupportive family who didn’t approve of her dream to be a singer before she ran away, and that’s partly the reason why she prefers not to talk about her past. She hides the fact she’s trans by using padded bras and wigs, but in her Insight 2 she’s wearing neither. I sorta view it as her accepting that she can’t hide her past but that it doesn’t change who she is now, if you get what I mean. It’s also like her accepting that she can have her naturally short hair and flat chest and still be a girl.

Kuminang didn’t have a proper real name at first since when she ran away to Manila she got rid of her former identity and immediately chose Kuminang as her stage name, and just went as that for a while. She then decided on Estrella as her proper real name, though still uses Kuminang.

Although Kuminang's mother tongue is Bisayan, she mostly speaks Tagalog due to her work in Manila. She also knows how to speak conversational English.

In terms of relationships to the other residents of the suitcase, I imagine her to admire Sweetheart a lot due to her own beauty and skills, and also because she views the idea of being in a film as her next step towards fame. I also imagine she sometimes hires Click to basically be her photographer, and though he gets easily overwhelmed by her energetic and bossy personality, she’s willing to buy camera films for him in exchange, so he goes along with her anyways. (This is just an excuse to get my fave character and my oc to interact)

She’s also quite fond of Vertin, and even though she teases her and is sometimes rude to her, she genuinely appreciates Vertin’s hard work and care towards her. She also talks about how Vertin is probably “one of the best managers she’s had”, but usually doesn’t elaborate past that.

I’m actually planning on making a fan-garment for her when Version 2.5 comes around because I really wanna draw her in a qipao/cheongsham surrounded by lanterns. And I know the garments for that patch are all traditional Chinese clothing BUT!!!!! I’ve been listening to Wei Ward Romance by Flavor Foley too much and really want an excuse to draw her in a qipao sooo WAIT FOR WHEN THAT ARRIVES!!!!

[pinoy-culture]

✨️ Who were the Bisayan deities? Let's discuss a few of them! There are a lot more deities that were not mentioned here, but you can read all about these different deities on my blog post, "The Bisayan Deities: Who were the Gods & Goddesses?" on my blog, thepinaywriter.com !

I will also be briefly discussing these deities in my first class of the year on July 19 via Zoom! To be able to participate, you must be in the Mayari Tier on my Patreon. During this first class we will also be discussing the babaylan and traditional tattooing. Classes are held monthly along with monthly book discussions for the Filipino Book & Reading Club! ✨️📚 Visit my Patreon at patreon.com/thepinaywriter for more info!

➡️ Do you know any of these deities? Who is your favorite?

[lunarlingual]

Cebuano (Visayan) Vocabulary

📍Bukidnon, Mindanao, The Philippines

🌹ig @nerizaizai

Hey all!! Have been wanting to make a Cebuano vocabulary list for a while now, I'm waiting to be able to get "Bisdak: learn to speak Cebuano overnight" by KD Sofia Sigil but in the meantime my boyfriend is a native speaker and helped me make this short little list! There's no theme to it, because many words I ask him he says they just use English (such as strawberry).

Cebuano, or Bisayâ/Binisayâ (Visayan in English) in the language, is spoken in the south of the Philippines, in Visayas (such as Cebu, of which Cebuano is named after and home to standard Cebuano) and in Mindanao. It's the lingua franca in many of these areas, and English is weaved throughout the language, making it a bit difficult to learn, as pure Visayan often sounds archaic, such as the Lord's Prayer:

"Amahán namò nga anaa sa mga langit, pagdaygon ang imong ngalan, umabót kanamò ang imong gingharian, matuman ang imong pagbuót, dinhí sa yutà maingón sa langit. Ang kalan-on namò sa matag adlaw, ihatag kanamò karóng adlawa.

Ug pasayloa kamí sa among mga salâ, ingón nga nagapasaylo kamí sa mga nakasalâ kanamò. Ug dilì mo kamí itugyan sa panuláy, hinunua luwasá kamí sa daután. Amen."

It is apart of the Bisayan language group (of the wider central Philippine group), and is by far the most widely spoken out of the Bisayan languages, spoken by about 20 million people. Other major languages within this group are Hiligaynon (7.8 million people) and Waray (3.6 million people). Many speakers of Cebuano prefer the term Bisayâ or Binisayâ, or Visayan in English (not to be confused with the broader Bisayan group) as they trace their ancestry to speakers of their native area, not settlers from Cebu. Even within the Visayan language, there are distinct dialects, such as the Bohol dialect on the island of Bohol.

Map of where Visayan is spoken

📍Chocolate Hills, Bohol, The Philippines / Mga Bungtod sa Tsokolate

🌹ig @jak73

Vocab List:

Moon - Bulan 🌕

Moonlight - Kahayag sa bulan 🌃

Sun - Adlaw ☀️

Sunset - Pagsalop sa adlaw 🌅

Sunlight - Kahayag sa adlaw 🌻

Darkness - Kangitngit 🌑

Dawn - Kadlawon 🌅

Star - Bitoon 🌟

Morning - Buntag 🌞

Night - Gabie 🌌

Flower - Bulak 🌷

Cloud - Panganod ☁️

Sky/Heaven - Langit 🌤

Rain - Uwan/Ulan 🌧

Bumblebee - Buyog 🐝

Spider - Alilawa 🕷

Spiderweb - Supot sa alilawa 🕸

Cat - Iring 🐈‍⬛️

Dog - Iro 🐕

Fish - Isda 🐠

Snake - Halas 🐍

Music - Sonata 🎶

Song - Kanta 🎵

Tree - Kahoy/Punoan 🌴

Fairy/Supernatural Spirit - Enkanto 🧚‍♀️

Love - Gugma 💖

Water - Tubig ⛲️

Fire - Kalayo 🔥

Wind - Hangin 🌬

Ocean - Lawud 🌊

Island- Isla 🏝

Seashell - Kinhason 🐚

Pearl - Perlas 🦪

Monkey - Unggoy 🐒

Deer - Usa 🦌

Cow - Baka 🐮

Pig - Baboy 🐷

Horse - Kabayo 🐎

Sheep - Karnero 🐑

Mouse - Elaga 🐭

Goat - Kanding 🐐

Duck - Pato 🦆

Chicken - Manok 🐔

Just short and sweet, but it's a start! 🦭

Leaving you with a poem:

Uling [Charcoal] ~

"Nagbaga nga kalayo sa atong kabatan-onan [The burning fire of our youth]

'di mapalong kon agi-an man sa mug-ot nga panganod ug uwan [can't be extinguished even through dark clouds and rain]

sama sa usa ka punoan nga aduna'y gibarugan [like a tree that has something to stand on]

'di matarug ug matangtang bisag kapila mo pang tayhupan." [it will not be shaken and removed no matter how many times you blow it]

~Jo Organiza

🪐🌠🌙

[lanaflowerz]

Every day praising an indigenous character Day 43-

Sucy Manbavaran from Little Witch Academia

Sucy Manbavaran (スーシィ・マンババラン Sūshī Manbabaran?) is one of the main protagonists of Little Witch Academia. She is a young witch from Southeast Asia.

Her first name, "Sucy", can mean "holy" in Malay and Indonesian, and may also be derived from "Susi" in Filipino, which means "key"; while her surname, "Manbavaran", is apparently derived from "Mambabarang" in Cebuano, which means "warlock/witch" and "black sorcerer/sorceress".

The Cebuano people are the indigenous people of the Philippines, Southeast Asia.

The Cebuano people (Cebuano: Mga Sugbuanon) are the largest subgroup of the larger ethnolinguistic group Visayans, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group in the country. They originated in the province of Cebu in the region of Central Visayas, but then later spread out to other places in the Philippines, such as Siquijor, Bohol, Negros Oriental, southwestern Leyte, western Samar, Masbate, and large parts of Mindanao.

Visayans or Bisayans are the indigenous people of the Visayan Islands. They speak many languages, of which the largest in terms of number of speakers today is Cebuano. According to Ethnologue there are 25 Bisayan language, although at least one (Tausug) is spoken by a group considered to be outside the Visayan culture area.

Visayans (Visayan: mga Bisaya; local pronunciation: [bisaˈjaʔ]) or Visayan people are a Philippine ethnolinguistic family group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, the southernmost islands of Luzon and a significant portion of Mindanao.

[kalakian]

If you go to the Gold Museum in Ayala, you’ll notice how much of the treasures come from the Visayas or precolonial Bisayan kingdoms in Mindanao. We imagine this is only a small sliver of what brilliant gold was once held in the abundant rivers & waters of the islands. Although we can commiserate together about the loss, we treasure what does remain: the richness of our islander languages preserving our living cultures! ⭐️ We’re starting Bisayan Language Immersions next week, from August 31 - November 6, 2023 ➡️ Learn with us! bababisaya.com

Ang larawan at impormasyon ay mula sa opisyal na Instagram account ng Bababisaya.

[k-ssiiii]

Ok now do MK1 KUNG LAO YOU WERENT FINISHED WITH ME YET! I feel like..there’s this one thingy I’ll tell you in thingy but I think you would understand it

BACK TO THE COAL MINES FOR ME...

Sexuality Headcanon: I HC him as also Bi, but he strongly prefers men, to the point where he probably thought he was gay for a long time. Bro didn't have a gay awakening, he had a Bi one. (Like me fr.) Gender Headcanon: CIS!! But he still uses He/They and sometimes even She. I think he finds pronouns to be a silly thing, but he's content with what he has. He wouldn't be offended if someone calls him pretty, or beautiful or typically 'feminine' compliments. He's cis here in my head, because Liu Kang wanted his bff to be able to be happy and not have to experience the crippling dysphoria he watched him struggle with. He's got a funny thing with gender, definitely sees himself as a man, but doesn't mind if other people see him differently. That strong kinda self-confidence that just genuinely makes him happy in his body regardless of what other people think. A ship I have with said character: I LIKE HANLAO HELP ME. I also Love Railao. Anything where he can be happy but also has that nice bit of angst in it... A BROTP I have with said character: OKAY HEAR ME OUT. LET ME COOK. KUNG LAO AND TOMAS. THEIR INTERACTIONS ARE SO BROCODED I LOVE THEM AAAUUGGGGHH melts away into a pile of sand. A NOTP I have with said character: Exploding the pancakes of people who ship him with Liu Kang /J /J /J I am joking i promise. I just personally don't like the ship. A random headcanon: Half-Filipino on his dads side, but never knew either of his parents. From the Cagayan De Oro area, he can speak Mandarin, Bisayan, and Standard Tagalog. This is part was inspired by the fact he just seems like a Chismoso and also by the fact in Mortal Kombat: Conquest, his actor was Paolo Montalban, a filipino man.

General Opinion over said character: AAAAUUGGH I WANT TO PICK HIM UP AND SHAKE HIM LIKE A SNOWGLOBE PLEASEEE UGHHH I LOVE HIM. I don't relate to him as much as MK11 Lao but LORD IS HE PRETTY AND LORD AM I A FAN. He's absolutely my favorite in MK1, followed by Quan Chi, and Rain. Honestly, I welcome all gender hcs for this goober. Trans, genderfluid, agender, bigender. I can see all of them fitting. Also Homophobia and transphobia don't exist in the MK1 universe Liu Kang eradicated it sorry I don't make the rules.

[swordofjamocles]

Okay so I'm loving Earthspark but I have one nitpick: Alex grew up in Bohol. Bohol is in the Visayas, so he should say that 'Lolo' is a Bisaya word, not a Tagalog one.

Like, come on, it's a simple google search! Filipino rep is already so small and mostly focuses on Tagalog speakers. As a Bisayan with family FROM Bohol it's a shame to see the writers drop the ball on this one.

[hoshianaarts]

This is the first comic for this August's celebration, the Month of Language here in the Philippines. For those who asked, What are "Ayo", "Ayo-ayo", and "maayo" here on my comic page? It does not come from the slang word, AYO in social media, which means "Hey You!" or "What's Up?", or a slang expression to greet someone or to get attention to someone, "Ayo?" - holup. "Ayo", "Ayo-ayo", and "maayo" have different usages in constructing sentences in some Bisayan languages, including our Cebuano language. I will explain.

1. In some Bisayan languages, "ayo" can mean "good" or be used as a "polite knock-knock greeting", similar to "tao po" in Tagalog. It is a way of acknowledging someone when entering their house, or in this case, a sari-sari store. NOTE: 'Maayo' and 'ayo' are the same words. "We Bisayans love to take shortcuts hehehe" (Here, in the comic, 'Ayo' is pronounced as in 'apple', not 'ancient'; the letter o is pronounced like 'job', not like 'zone'). NOTE AGAIN: 'Ayo' [á.yu.] can also mean 'fix'.

2. "Ayo-ayo" or ayoayo here means "take care" (AMPING will be another word for that). It does not mean knock-knock or good-good (like halo-halo), although the word "ayo-ayo," the "ayo" originated from "ayo" meaning "good." NOTE: Ayo-ayo can also mean treating someone nice. Another term/sentence for ayo-ayo is "Pagayoayo ra dinha!", "Wish you a good day/health!" In this scenario, despite the guy getting annoyed, he still wishes the sari-sari store owner a good day/health.

3. "Maayo" [ma.á.yu.] here means "that's good!", "good" or "excellent", which is a derivative of 'ayo' - 'good'.

4. Hay [hái.] means *sigh.

FOR MORE INFO AND REFERENCES: *https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1934109260187603&id=1381220285476506&set=a.1397320230533178 *https://www.binisaya.com/cebuano/maayo *https://www.binisaya.com/node/21&search=root&word=ayo *https://www.reddit.com/r/Bisaya/comments/tnlzbx/para_sa_inyo_unsay_kalahian_sa_amping_ug_ayoayo/ *https://hinative.com/questions/7796511

[lemoncakeartses]

I started watching Vtubers, and in what I assume is a common urge among viewers, started designing an original model concept

(I’m also starting to learn some rigging)

My goal is a fairly androgynous figure featuring clothing inspiration from pre-colonial filipino/bisayan fashion (part of my ancestry) and lore concepts built around binary star systems (because they’re cool)

I think it’s going pretty well and I’m excited and proud of it so far

[persephone-s-moon]

I just saw your Asian names for the tlb boys and I’ve never been so happier :) as a Filipino— Paolo (can also be spelled Paulo!!!) and Nino is very accurate because I actually have relatives named the same names 😭. I can just imagine Laddie calling Paul “Kuya Paolo” or sometimes in Filipino culture, you can be nicknamed “NJ” (I thought it would be cute for Laddie :0 ) and hopefully, you’ll dive a bit deeper into some cultures like Bisayan or Ilocano culture!! ((sorry if this seems rlly annoying btw! I can’t help but just be happy when my culture and one of my fav fandoms mix 🫶))

I'm SO glad that my project is reaching other Asian fans! Thank you so much for your kind words, you have no idea how amazing it is to hear <33333

The nickname suggestions are so cute! I was considering having the boys teach Laddie some terms of endearment in their own languages too (like having him call David "Lao Zhao-Yi/Lao Huang" and have David call him "Xiao Nino" on occasion) so that they all have their own personal nicknames with each other :))

I'll definitely be looking into more specific cultures for all the boys, so thank you for naming some! I hope I do Paul and Laddie's character reimagines justice

[beef-unknwn]

Thank you ellie. I'm Filipino but not Bisayan but I still appreciate you tagging me :)

filipino highschooler miku (bisaya edition)

[pinoy-culture]

✨️ After months of planning, the Filipino Book and Study Club is now up and running! 🇵🇭📚

Starting in July, we will be discussing 2 books, Barangay by William Henry Scott and History of the Bisayans Volume 1, the English translation of Francisco Alcina's works in 1668 by Kobak.

I will also be hosting my first class in awhile! We will be discussing various deities from the Philippines, the babaylan, and traditional tattooing. It will be held on Friday, July 19. Time will be announced in the coming weeks once we get closer.

Scanned pdfs chapters of Barangay and History of the Bisayans will be available on my Patreon later this week to those in the Mayari Tier on my Patreon. I will also be posting a study guide for you all based on July's chapter readings. These study guides and scanned pdfs of books will be available to both the Apo Laki and Mayari Tiers.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! And if you know someone who would be interested in joining the Filipino Book & Study Club, share this post to them or tag them.

I look forward to having the first class of this year we you all!

➡️ LINK TO MY PATREON