Visayans Visayan mga Bisaya local pronunciation bisaja or Visayan people are a Philippine ethnolinguistic group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, the southernmost islands of Luzon and a significant portion of Mindanao. When taken as a single ethnic group, they are both the most numerous in the Ver ms. Kabisay-an refers both to the Visayan people collectively and the islands they have inhabited since prehistory. The Anglicized term Visayas in turn adapted from the Hispanized Bisayas is commonly used to refer to the Ver ms. Ethnic Visayans predominantly speak at least one of the Bisayan languages, most of which are commonly referred as Binisaya or Bisaya. Ver ms. Bisaya Borneo, a similarly-named ethnic group in Borneo Pintados Visayas Lues Rajahnate of Cebu Ver ms. Classical periodThe Visayans first encountered Western Civilization when Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the island of Homonhon Ver ms. TattooLike most other pre-colonial ethnic groups in the Philippines and other Austronesi
