What is Waray language?
{{Infobox language |name=Waray-Waray |nativename=Winaray |familycolor=Austronesian |states={{Flag|Philippines}} |region=Eastern [[Visayas]] |speakers=3.1 million; 5th most spoken native language in the Philippines<ref>Philippine Census, 2000. Table 11. Household Population by Ethnicity, Sex and Region: 2000</ref> |fam2=[[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]] |fam3=[[Philippine languages|Philippine]] |fam4=[[Central Philippine languages|Central Philippine]] |fam5=[[Visayan languages|Visayan]] |fam6=[[Central Visayan languages|Central Visayan]] |script=[[Latin alphabet|Latin]] ([[Filipino alphabet|Filipino variant]]);<br>''Historically written in [[Baybayin]]'' |nation=[[Regional language]] in the [[Philippines]] |agency=[[Commission on the Filipino Language]] |iso2=war|iso3=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 languages|Visayan language family]] and are related to [[Cebuano language|Cebuano]] and more closely to [[Hiligaynon language|Hiligaynon]] and [[Masbateño language|Masbateño]]. ==Usage== Waray-Waray is one of the ten officially recognized regional languages in the Philippines and is used by the local government. It is spoken throughout the islands, especially in the Eastern Visayas region. But it is also spoken in some parts of Mindanao, Masbate, Sorsogon, and [[Metro Manila]] where Warays went to. There is also a very small number of Filipinos abroad, especially in the United States, that speak this language. ==Sounds== The Waray language has sixteen [[consonant]]s: {{IPA|/p, t, k, b, d, ɡ, m, n, ŋ, s, h, w, l, ɾ, j/}}. There are three main vowels: ''a'' {{IPA|[a]}}, ''i'' {{IPA|[ɛ ~ i]}}, and ''u'' {{IPA|[o ~ ʊ]}}. Consonants {{IPA|/d/}} and {{IPA|/ɾ/}} were once [[allophone]] but