Short answers, pulled from the story.
Cebuano speakers outnumbered Tagalog speakers in the 1950s, making it the most widely spoken native language in the Philippines for three decades. This demographic reality shifted only around the 1980s.
Italian explorer Antonio Pigafetta compiled the earliest record of the Cebuano language in 1521 during Ferdinand Magellan's expedition. Pigafetta's dictionary remains the oldest surviving document of the language, though it was translated into Italian rather than preserved in the original script.
The ISO 639-2 code for the Cebuano language is ceb. The language lacks a two-letter ISO 639-1 code, a technical detail that reflects its complex status within the global linguistic community.
The Boholano dialect is spoken in central Bohol and is distinguished by phonetic changes such as the pronunciation of y as iyá and the occasional replacement of l with w. This dialect represents one of the four main dialectal groups aside from Standard and Urban Cebuano.
The first grammar book on the Cebuano language was compiled by Spanish priest Francisco Encina in the 18th century but was not published until the early 19th century. Encina recorded both the Latin alphabet letters used for the language and the non-Latin characters used by the natives.