A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan

This is not merely a translation guide. Wolff's dictionary, compiled over years of fieldwork involving more than a hundred collaborators, explains Cebuano on its own terms, a linguistic approach that reveals the architecture of the language itself rather than just offering English equivalents. With approximately 25,000 entries plus an addenda of 700 additional forms, it stands as the most comprehensive record of Cebuano Visayan ever assembled. The language itself is spoken by some 21 million people across the central Philippines and much of Mindanao, making it one of the country's major tongues. For linguists, this is an essential reference. For Cebuano speakers, it documents a language in all its nuance. For students, it offers something no simple bilingual dictionary can: a window into how the language thinks.