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Cebuano alphabet and characters
Cebuano is written with the Latin alphabet consisting of 20 letters, representing 5 vowels and 15 consonants.
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Lower-case characters:
Upper-case characters
Cebuano grammar rules
Cebuano shares many features with other Austronesian languages of the Philippines such as Tagalog and Ilokano.
Nouns
Nouns are marked for number. Plural is expressed by putting ‘’mga’’ in front of the noun.
Nouns are preceded by the markers ‘’si’’ for names of people (personal) and ‘’ang’’ for everything else (common).
Verbs
Cebuano formatting rules
Date formats
| First day of the week | Monday |
| Working days | Monday to Friday |
| Short date format | MM-dd-yyyy |
| e.g. 03-17-2016 | |
| Long date format | mmmm dd, yyyy |
| e.g. Marso 26, 2016 |
Numbers and currency
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