Tomás N. Alonso (1881 – 1962) is a well-known
Cebuano Visayan
Visayans ( Visayan: ''mga Bisaya''; ) or Visayan people are a Philippine ethnolinguistic group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, the southernmost islands of Luzon and a significant portion of Mindanao. When taken as a single ethnic group, ...
writer. He published the first complete Cebuano translation of
Jose Rizal
Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods.
* Jose ben Abin
*Jose ben Akabya
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's ''El filibusterismo''. He also translated the ''Mi último adiós''. He was a columnist with ''Bag-ong Suga'' and editor of the Spanish publication ''La opinión''.
References
www.bisaya.com Visayan Literature page
1881 births
1962 deaths
Visayan writers
Cebuano writers
Filipino writers
Cebuano people
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