Because the “cebuano” speaking Bisaya people have been living in Mindanao before the Spanish occupation. While Waray was not able to spread beyond Samar and Leyte.
Cebuano or Bisaya has always been in Mindanao. The Spanish used one Visayan language to communicate between the people of Cebu (Visayas) and Butuan (Mindanao).
Humabon the Rajah of Cebu is the cousin of Rajah Awi, the lord of Butuan. While Rajah Kolambo of Leyte is Rajah Awi’s brother. The Visayan polities of the Cebuano speaking Visayans are related to the Visayan polities of Mindanao, back then they shared one culture, and language. If you speak Cebuano it’s very easy to pick up Surigaonon and Butuanon, although most Butuanon have now shifted to Cebuano, just because there’s too much similarities in the two languages so it’s very easy to shift.
The city of Dapitan in Zamboanga peninsula was founded by Datu Pagbuaya and other Bol-anons who came from the Dapitan kingdom of Bohol, and they also founded Iligan city in Northern Mindanao.
The Bisaya (cebuano speaking) people who inhabit Cagayan de Oro and northern Mindanao have been living there since ancient times, and according to a source are a mix of Visayans and sub-Visayan groups like the lumad, Subanun.
Notice that the Subanun use Visayan words, “suba” or river and “nun” meaning person. Like “Nihon jin” for Japanese or “Zhongguo ren” for Chinese. It shows the extent of Visayan influence on Zamboanga natives. Today Subanen speaks Bisaya (cebuano) as does all Lumad groups. The lingua franca of the Lumad is Bisaya (cebuano) not Tagalog. Bisaya is also a lingua franca of BARMM. Lately, I noticed that more and more Moro mainly younger females from the Maranao tribe are preferring to speak Bisaya (cebuano) and are enggaging with other Bisaya speakers on social media.
So even back then there’s both familial, linguistic and cultural relations between the “Cebuano speaking” Visayans of Central Visayas, and Western/Southern Leyte and the Visayans of Mindanao unlike the Waray Visayans.
So I am not sure where the Luzon people got this notion that the Cebuano Visayans only migrated recently, when the Bisaya (Cebuano speaking) have always been in Mindanao since ancient times.
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