Editing Bisayan languages (section)

== Internal classification ==
[[David Zorc]] gives the following internal classification for the Bisayan languages (Zorc 1977:32).<ref name="Zorc">{{Cite book |title=The Bisayan Dialects of the Philippines: Subgrouping and Reconstruction |last=Zorc |first=David Paul |date=1977 |publisher=Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University |isbn=0858831570 |location=Canberra, Australia |doi=10.15144/PL-C44 |doi-access=free |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/bisayandialectso0044zorc }}</ref> The five primary branches are South, Cebuan, Central, Banton, and West. However, Zorc notes that the Bisayan language family is more like a [[dialect continuum]] rather than a set of readily distinguishable languages.

The South Bisayan languages are considered to have diverged first, followed by Cebuan and then the rest of the three branches. Also, in the Visayas section, the province of [[Romblon]] has the most linguistic diversity, as languages from three primary Bisayan branches are spoken there: [[Romblomanon language|Romblomanon]] from Central Bisayan, [[Onhan language|Inunhan]] from Western Bisayan and [[Banton language|Banton]] (which has an independent Bisayan branch).

Notably, [[Baybay language|Baybayanon]] and [[Porohanon language|Porohanon]] have [[Waray language|Warayan]] substrata, indicating a more widespread distribution of Waray before Cebuano speakers started to expand considerably starting from the mid-1800s.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2SRqDzB50wC |title=Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World |last=Lobel |first=Jason |publisher=Elsevier |year=2009 |location=Oxford |pages=914–917}}</ref>

A total of 36 varieties are listed below. Individual languages are marked by ''italics''.

[[File:Bisayan Languages Tree Chart.png|thumb|Bisayan Languages Tree Chart]]

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* '''''Bisayan'''''
** 1. '''South''' (spoken on the northeastern coast of [[Mindanao]])
*** Butuan-Tausug
**** ''[[Tausug language|Tausug]]''
**** ''[[Butuanon language|Butuanon]]''
*** Surigao
**** ''[[Surigaonon language|Surigaonon]]''
**** ''Tandaganon''
** 2. '''Cebuan''' (spoken in [[Cebu]], [[Bohol]], [[Siquijor]], [[Eastern Negros]], western [[Leyte]] and northern, southeastern and northwestern parts of [[Mindanao]])
*** Cebuan
**** ''[[Cebuano language|Cebuano]]''
***** ''[[Boholano language|Boholano]]''
** 3. '''Central''' (spoken across most of the Visayan region)
*** Warayan (spoken in eastern [[Leyte]], [[Biliran]] and [[Samar]])
**** ''[[Waray language|Waray]]''
**** ''[[Baybayanon language|Baybayanon]]''
**** ''[[Kabalian language|Kabalian]]''
**** ''[[Southern Sorsogon language|Southern Sorsogon (Gubat)]]''
*** {{anchor|Peripheral Visayan languages|Peripheral Bisayan languages}} Peripheral
**** ''[[Hiligaynon language|Hiligaynon (Ilonggo)]]'' (spoken in eastern [[Panay]] and [[Guimaras]], [[Western Negros]] and south-central [[Mindanao]])
**** ''[[Capiznon language|Capiznon]]''
**** ''[[Bantayanon language|Bantayanon]]''
**** ''[[Porohanon language|Porohanon]]''
**** ''Masbate-Sorsogon''
***** ''[[Masbateño language|Masbateño]]''
***** ''[[Masbate Sorsogon language|Central Sorsogon (Masbate)]]''
*** Romblon (also the name of the [[Romblon|province]])
**** ''[[Romblomanon language|Romblomanon]]''
** 4. '''Asi''' (spoken in northwestern [[Romblon]] Province)
**** ''[[Asi language|Asi]]''
** 5. '''West'''
*** Aklan (spoken in northwestern [[Panay]])
**** ''[[Aklanon language|Aklanon/Inakeanon]]''
**** ''[[Malaynon language|Malaynon]]''
*** Karayan
**** ''[[Karay-a language|Karay-a]]'' (spoken in western and inland [[Panay]])
*** North-Central (spoken on [[Tablas Island]] and the southern tip of [[Mindoro]])
**** ''[[Onhan language|Inonhan]]'' (language related to Karayan)
*** Kuyan (spoken in the archipelagos west of [[Panay]] and [[Romblon]] as well as the southern tip of [[Mindoro]])
**** ''[[Ratagnon language|Ratagnon]]''
**** ''[[Cuyonon language|Cuyonon]]''
*** Caluyanon
**** ''[[Caluyanon language|Caluyanon]]''
{{tree list/end}}

The auxiliary language of [[Eskayan language|Eskayan]] is grammatically Bisayan, but has essentially no Bisayan (or Philippine) vocabulary.

[[Magahat language|Magahat]] and [[Karolanos language|Karolanos]], both spoken in Negros, are unclassified within Bisayan.<ref name="Lobel2013">Lobel, Jason William. 2013. [http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf ''Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction'']. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.</ref>