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Waray (also known as Waray-Waray or Bisayâ/Binisayâ and Winaray/Waray, Spanish: idioma samareño meaning Samar language) is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern Visayas. It is the native language of the Waray people and second language of the Abaknon people of Capul, Northern Samar, and some Cebuano-speaking peoples of wes
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| Waray | |
|---|---|
| Waray-Waray, Samar-Leyte Visayan | |
| Winaray, Samareño, Lineyte-Samarnon, Binisayâ nga Winaray, Binisayâ nga Samar-Leyte | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Eastern Visayas, some parts of Masbate, southern part of Sorsogon, and Gibusong Island of Mindanao |
| Ethnicity | Waray |
Native speakers | 3.6 million (2015 census) |
Austronesian
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| Dialects | Standard Waray (Tacloban dialect), Northern Samar dialect, Calbayog dialect, Culaba-Biliran dialect, Abuyog dialect and 20 other identified dialects and subdialects |
| Latin; Historically Baybayin | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Regional language in the Philippines |
| Regulated by | Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino Historically regulated by the Sanghiran san Binisaya ha Samar ug Leyte |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | war |
| ISO 639-3 | war |
| Glottolog | wara1300 |
 Areas where Waray-Waray is spoken | |
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