Philippines language

Ilonggo (Hiligaynon) Ilonggo, or Hiligaynon, is a native language in Western Visayas. It is primarily spoken in the provinces of Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Guimaras, and Capiz. With over 9 million speakers, Ilonggo plays an essential role in the...
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National and official languages Language map of the 12 recognized auxiliary languages based on Ethnologue maps. History. Spanish was the official language of the country for more than three centuries under Spanish colonial rule, and became the lingua...
It is the only Spanish-based Creole language in Asia and has been spoken for around 400 years. This makes the language one of the oldest Creole languages in the world. Chavacano has an estimated 1.2 million speakers. Foreign Languages Spoken In The...
There are some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago. A number of Spanish-influenced creole varieties generally called Chavacano...
Small Indian communities have inhabited the Philippines since pre-Spanish times. Thus, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu (spoken by the Pakistani community) are among the most widely spoken South Asian languages. Recently, many Tamil, Nepali, and Marathi...
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The language landscape of the Philippines in 4 maps. August 10, 2016. ... While the language website Ethnologue pegs the country's diversity index at 0.84 or 84%, our own computations based on data from the 2010 Philippine Census puts the figure at...
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Filipino (English: / ˌ f ɪ l ɪ ˈ p iː n oʊ / ⓘ, FIH-lih-PEE-noh; Wikang Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family.It is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the Philippines, and one of...
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama-Bajaw (languages of the...
Language data for the Philippines. There are over 120 languages spoken in the Philippines. Filipino, the standardized form of Tagalog, is the national language and used in formal education throughout the country. Filipino and English are both official...
Some of these regional languages are also used in education. [9] The most spoken regional languages in the country aside from Tagalog are Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinense, Maguindanaoan, Maranao, and Tausug . The...
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