Waray language

Waray-Waray
Winaray
Native to	Philippines
Region	Eastern Visayas
Native speakers	3.1 million; 5th most spoken native language in the Philippines[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Visayan Central Visayan Waray-Waray
Writing system	Latin (Filipino variant); Historically written in Baybayin
Official status
Official language in	Regional language in the Philippines
Regulated by	Commission on the Filipino Language
Language codes
ISO 639-2	war
ISO 639-3	war

Wáray-Wáray or Warai (commonly spelled as Waray; also Winaray or Lineyte-Samarnon) is a language spoken in the provinces of Samar, Leyte, and Biliran in the Philippines.

The Waraynon group of languages consists of Waray, Waray Sorsogon, and Masbate Sorsogon. All the Warayan languages belong to the Visayan language family and are related to Cebuano and more closely to Hiligaynon and Masbateño.

1. ↑ Philippine Census, 2000. Table 11. Household Population by Ethnicity, Sex and Region: 2000