Language
Cebuano Visayan is the indigenous language and of Malayo-Polynesian origin with Spanish influences, which is also widely spoken in the rest of the Visayas and Mindanao. Tagalog and English are also spoken and understood.
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“If fancy then
Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task,
Ah, what shall language do?”
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“One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.”
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“In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we do not know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.”
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