如果⟨l⟩在⟨u⟩/⟨o⟩和⟨a⟩之間 ,⟨l⟩丟失。例如bulan(月亮)→ buwan or bwan。
如果⟨l⟩在兩個相似的元音間,⟨l⟩會完全消失,而使元音長度加長。例如dala(帶來)→ da (/d̪aː/);而tulod(推)→tud (/t̪uːd̪/).[5]。除非l在閉元音之間或在倒數第二音節的音節首,否則⟨l⟩會和一個元音一同丟失,而不會造成元音延長。例如:kalatkat(爬)→katkat,且應當發音成/ˈkatkat/,而非/ˈkaːtkat/。
你好? - Kumusta ka(sing.)?, Kumusta kamo(pl.)?, Unsa may imong(sing.) kahimtang?, Unsa may inyong(pl.) kahimtang?
早安 - Maayong buntag
午安 - Maayong hapon
晚安 - Maayong gabii
再見 - Ayoayo ("Farewell", formal), Adios (rare), Babay (informal, corruption of "Goodbye"), Amping ("Take care"), Hangtud sa sunod ("Until next time")
謝謝 - Salamat nimo(sing.), salamat ninyo(pl.)
你來自哪裡啊? - Taga diin ka(sing.)?, taga diin mo(pl.)?
...用宿霧語怎麼說呢? - Unsaun pagsulti sa ... sa Sinugbuanon/Binisaya?
我怎麼去 ...? - Unsaon naku pag-adto sa...?
你了解嗎? - Nakasabut ka(sing.)?, Nakasabut mo(pl.)?
天氣怎樣? - Kumusta ang panahon?
這是什麼? - Unsa na?
幾點了? - Unsa nang orasa?/Unsang orasa na?
慢著/停下來 - Hunonga na
不要 - Ayaw
是的 - Oo
不是 - Dili ("no", used for future tense), Wala ("nothing, the absence of", used for past and progressive tenses)[8]
好的/OK - Sige, Patek
很好 - Ngilngig, Kuyaw
老天! (Interjection) - "Oy!", Hala!, Sus! (shortened form of Hesus!, roughly equivalent to English interjections "Sheesh", "Christ!", and "Jesus!"),[9][10]
參考資料
^Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin
^Philippine Census, 2000. Table 11. Household Population by Ethnicity, Sex and Region: 2000
^Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (编). Cebuano. Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2016.