Spilling the Juice

Gems recently shared something with me in regards to the Bisaya race. Recently she googled on the word Bisaya. Most of it were about the Bisayas or popularly known as the visayas (a race from the southern Philippines) but nothing much on the Malaysian Bisaya with the exception of a reference from Britannica online, about a minority tribe on the North-western part of Borneo. According to Britannica, only about less than 7000 are of this race. I happen to be one of them, yet at the same time I am not a full bisaya.

Can you believe it? It’s such a small minority. The sad part about is that I can’t even speak the language. There was even a note in the online encyclopaedia that this tribe could be originated from the Bisayas of the Philippines. Whether we originated from there, I HONESTLY DON’T KNOW…But I do know that dad told me once that the bisayas were initially pirates originating from the Philippines.

Nonetheless, its quite interesting…yet sad as the culture slowly seeping away due to the ever changing socio-economical climate of the world. I am interested in learning, its just the lame old excuse of "I’m too busy" that’s stopping me. Perhaps who knows, like Gems suggested…write an English-Bisaya dictionary!!!

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