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

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

Approximately more than 175 languages and dialects in the Philippines form part of the regional languages group. A few of these are spoken in island communities...

Spanish was the sole official language of the Philippines throughout its more than three centuries of Spanish rule, from the late 16th century to 1898...

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

the Filipino language and the official government institution tasked with developing, preserving, and promoting the various local Philippine languages. The...

The Bible has been translated into multiple Philippine languages (with regional languages colloquially referred to as dialects), including Filipino language...

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

Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second...

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

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;...

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...

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

Philippine languages, it is the only one not an Austronesian language, but like Malayo-Polynesian languages, it uses reduplication. Filipinos share the same...

parts of the population. The most commonly spoken indigenous languages are Tagalog and Cebuano, with 23.8 million (45 million speakers as Filipino) and 16...

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...

related to the native languages of the Philippines, both being Austronesian languages. Many words in the Tagalog and various Visayan languages are derived...

civilian occupations of the archipelago. The 1987 Constitution provides that Filipino and English be official languages of the Philippines. It does not contain...

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

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

Samar language) is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern Visayas. It is the native...

The president of the Philippines (Filipino: Pangulo ng Pilipinas, sometimes referred to as Presidente ng Pilipinas) is the head of state, head of government...

The Bikol languages or Bicolano languages are a group of Central Philippine languages spoken mostly in the Bicol Peninsula in the southeastern part of...

purposes of communication and instruction, the official languages of the Philippines are Filipino and, until otherwise provided by law, English. The regional...

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

delimiters. Filipino orthography (Filipino: Ortograpiyang Filipino) specifies the correct use of the writing system of the Filipino language, the national...

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

The Commonwealth of the Philippines (Spanish: Mancomunidad de Filipinas; Tagalog: Kómonwelt nañg Pilipinas) was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth...

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

The Negrito peoples of the Philippines speak various Philippine languages. They have more in common with neighboring languages than with each other, and...