By Sator P. Apoyon
Davao City
The Cebuano (Bisaya Language), as a lingua franca in Central Visayas and Mindanao, is bedeviled by a lot of negative factors for its growth in the New Millennium.
Among the causes of the anemic stride of the language, popularly known as "Sinugboanong Binisaya", are the disparity in numbers of media outlets between Tagalog and Cebuano, radio and television programming imbalance, apathy of the Cebuano-speaking people themselves to nurture the Lapulapu tongue—and Filipinization.
As of the present, only Bisaya Magazine, one of the publications of the Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, has remained as the major absorber of literary and poetry outputs of Cebuano writers.
Her rivals in the industry—Lamdag, Alimyon, Silaw and Bag-ong Suga -- have been dead many, many years ago.