Southern Leyte, officially the Province of Southern Leyte, is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is the city of Maasin. Southern Leyte comprised the third congressional district Leyte until it was made into an independent province in 1959. Southern Leyte includes Limasawa, an island to the south where the first Roman Catholic Mass in Philippine soil is believed to have taken place and thus considered to be the birthplace of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines.
Image: Agas Agas Bridge
Image: Wawa Bridge of Liloan
Image: Hinunangan Town Proper Aerial View
Image: Maasin City Cathedral
Cebuano is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines. It is natively, though informally, called by its generic term BisayĆ¢ or BinisayĆ¢ and sometimes referred to in English sources as Cebuan. It is spoken by the Visayan ethnolinguistic groups native to the islands of Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, the eastern half of Negros, the western half of Leyte, and the northern coastal areas of Northern Mindanao and the eastern part of Zamboanga del Norte due to Spanish settlements during 18th century. In modern times, it has also spread to the Davao Region, Cotabato, Camiguin, parts of the Dinagat Islands, and the lowland regions of Caraga, often displacing native languages in those areas.
Cebu Provincial Capitol's historical marker in Cebu City
Pigafetta's dictionary containing vocabularies from Malay and Bisayan languages which also includes Cebuano which is then translated to or from Italian
Public health safety reminders on the city hall of Davao