Cebuano, also known as Sinugboanon, is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20,000,000 people (according to Ethnologue). It is a subgroup or member of Bisaya, Visayan and Binisayâ. The name came from the Philippine island of Cebu, the site of the first and biggest Spanish settlement whose vicinity speaks the said language. Cebuano is given the ISO 639-2 three letter code ceb, but has no ISO 639-1 two letter code.
