Cebuano
Binisayâ, Sinugboanon
'Sinugbuanong Binisayâ' written in Badlit
Native to	Philippines
Region	Central Visayas, eastern Negros Occidental, western parts of Eastern Visayas, and most parts of Mindanao
Ethnicity	Visayans (Bisaya)
Native speakers	28.9 million  (2020)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine Visayan Cebuano
Dialects	Standard Cebuano (Cebu island Urban Cebuano (Metro Cebu) Negros Cebuano Boholano Leyte (Kanâ) Mindanao Cebuano Davaoeño
Writing system	Latin (Cebuano alphabet) Philippine Braille Historically Badlit
Official status
Official language in	Regional language in the Philippines.
Regulated by	Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-2	ceb
ISO 639-3	ceb
Cebuano-speaking area in the Philippines

Cebuano (also referred to as Bisaya) is one of the main languages spoken in the Philippines. More than 28 million people speak this language. Cebuano is a member of the Visayan language family.

While Tagalog has more speakers than any other language in the Philippines today, Cebuano was the most widely spoken language in the Philippines from the 1950s until the 1980s. Cebuano is by far the most widely spoken of the Visayan languages.