some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the...

national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the Philippines, and one of the two official languages (Wikang opisyal/Opisyal na wika) of the country...

languages of the Philippines are Filipino and, until otherwise provided by law, English. The regional languages are the auxiliary official languages in...

thinking skills of children and facilitates the learning of second languages such as English and Filipino. Approximately more than 175 languages and dialects...

approximately 50 endangered languages. A 2015 study by the Commission updated the list of endangered languages in the Philippines. The Commission noted that...

the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language—and form a subfamily of Austronesian...

most commonly spoken indigenous languages are Tagalog and Cebuano, with 23.8 million (45 million speakers as Filipino) and 16 million speakers, respectively...

alphabet of the Filipino language, the official national language and one of the two official languages of the Philippines. The modern Filipino alphabet...

Philippines from adjacent Asian countries. English is taught in schools as one of the two official languages of the country, the other being Filipino...

Waray people Waray literature Waray Wikipedia Languages of the Philippines Samar Leyte Waray Sorsogon language Waray at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Lobel...

their own languages, most Filipinos speak languages classified under the Austronesian language family, including the various Negrito peoples of the archipelago...

Pangasinan, and more distantly to other Austronesian languages, such as the Formosan languages of Taiwan, Indonesian, Malay, Hawaiian, Māori, Malagasy...

Pilipino), is a sign language originating in the Philippines. Like other sign languages, FSL is a unique language with its own grammar, syntax and morphology;...

comprising Philippines, Indonesia and East Malaysia as "Malaysia" as a whole. Malay is related to the native languages of the Philippines, both being...

languages for the Philippines, 182 of which are living languages; the other four no longer have any known speakers. Most native languages are part of...

speaking Filipino, English, or other Philippine languages. Despite formerly being subject to Spanish colonialism, only around 2–4% of Filipinos are fluent...

Filipino or Hispanic Filipino (Spanish: español filipino / hispano filipino / peninsular / insular / criollo / latino / filipino indígena; Filipino/Tagalog:...

Philippine languages (with regional languages colloquially referred to as dialects), including Filipino language, based on the Tagalog (the major language), the...

Austronesian language spoken by the Batak people on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is sometimes disambiguated from the Batak languages as Palawan...

Of the seventeen presidents of the Philippines, a number have shown proficiency in languages other than English and Tagalog (which would later become the...

Luzon languages), not PMP *ə > /u/ or /ə/, as in the Visayan languages Lobel (2013:75) lists the following Ati communities in the Philippines, with populations...

The Sama–Bajaw languages are a well-established group of languages spoken by the Sama-Bajau peoples (sea gypsies) of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia...

which includes all languages within the Philippines (except for the Sama–Bajaw languages) as well as those within the northern portions of Sulawesi in Indonesia...

The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog...

language. Asian studies Asianic languages Classification schemes for Southeast Asian languages East Asian languages Languages of South Asia List of extinct...

field. Most of the major languages of the Philippines belong to the Greater Central Philippine subgroup: Tagalog, the Visayan languages Cebuano, Hiligaynon...

Spanish-based creole languages. Chavacano is spoken in Zamboanga City in the Philippines and is a regional language. Papiamento is the official language in Aruba...

"the Chinoy business language" [sic]. It is also used as a liturgical language as one of the languages that Protestant Chinese Filipino churches typically...

other of the Commonwealth's two official languages, was Commonwealth de Filipinas ([filiˈpinas]). The 1935 Constitution uses "the Philippines" as the...

English, Filipino/Tagalog or other Philippine languages (such as Visayan languages) and may also code-switch any and all of these languages, such as Taglish...