Editing Cebuano language (section)

==Geographical distribution==
As of the 2020 (but released in 2023) statistics released by the [[Philippine Statistics Authority]], the current number of households that speak Cebuano is  approximately 1.72 million<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tagalog is the Most Widely Spoken Language at Home (2020 Census of Population and Housing) {{!}} Philippine Statistics Authority {{!}} Republic of the Philippines |url=https://psa.gov.ph/content/tagalog-most-widely-spoken-language-home-2020-census-population-and-housing |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=psa.gov.ph}}</ref> and around 6.5% of the country's population speak it inside their home. However, in a journal published in 2020, the number of speakers is estimated to be 15.9 million which in turn based it on a 2019 study.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dreisbach |first1=Jeconiah Louis |last2=Demetrio III |first2=Feorillo Petronillo A. |date=October 2020 |title=Intergenerational Language Preference Shift Among Cebuanos on the Cebuano, Filipino, and English Languages |url=https://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/LLT/article/download/2581/1884 |journal=LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=220–240|doi=10.24071/llt.v23i2.2581 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Cebuano is spoken in the provinces of [[Cebu]], [[Bohol]], [[Siquijor]], [[Negros Oriental]], northeastern [[Negros Occidental]] (as well as the municipality of [[Hinoba-an]] and the cities of [[Kabankalan]] and [[Sipalay]] to a great extent, alongside [[Hiligaynon language|Ilonggo]]), southern [[Masbate]], western portions of [[Leyte]] and [[Biliran]] (to a great extent, alongside [[Waray language|Waray]]), and a large portion of [[Mindanao]], notably the urban areas of [[Zamboanga Peninsula]], [[Northern Mindanao]], [[Davao Region]], [[Caraga]] and some parts of [[Soccsksargen]] (alongside Ilonggo, [[Maguindanao language|Maguindanaon]], [[Mindanao languages|indigenous Mindanaoan languages]] and to the lesser extent, [[Ilocano language|Ilocano]]).<ref name="Wolff 1972">{{harvnb|Wolff|1972|}}</ref> It is also spoken in some remote barangays of [[San Francisco, Quezon|San Francisco]] and [[San Andres, Quezon|San Andres]] in [[Quezon Province]] in [[Luzon]], due to its geographical contact with Cebuano-speaking parts of [[Burias (island)|Burias Island]] in [[Masbate]]. Some dialects of Cebuano have different names for the language. Cebuano speakers from Cebu are mainly called "Cebuano" while those from Bohol are "Boholano" or "Bol-anon". Cebuano speakers in Leyte identify their dialect as ''Kanâ'' meaning ''that'' (Leyte Cebuano or Leyteño). Speakers in [[Mindanao]] and [[Luzon]] refer to the language simply as ''Binisayâ'' or ''Bisayà''.<ref name="COTFE">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/ChurchOfTheFarEastPreview |title=Church of the Far East |year=2016 |last=Pangan |first=John Kingsley |publisher=St. Pauls |location=Makati |pages=19}}</ref>