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Except for English, Spanish, Chavacano and varieties of Chinese (Hokkien, Cantonese and Mandarin), all of the languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. The following are the four Philippine languages with more than five million native speakers: [ 47 ] Tagalog. Cebuano.
Filipino (English: / ˌ f ɪ l ɪ ˈ p iː n oʊ / ⓘ, FIH-lih-PEE-noh; [1] 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, lingua franca (Karaniwang wika), and one of the two official languages (Wikang opisyal/Opisyal na wika) of the country, with English. [2]
Philippine languages. 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 "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language —and form a subfamily of ...
A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ /, tə-GAH-log; [3] [tɐˈɣaː.loɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an 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 language by the majority.
The Commission on the Filipino Language (CFL), [2] also referred to as the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), [a] is the official regulating body of the Filipino language and the official government institution tasked with developing, preserving, and promoting the various local Philippine languages. [4][5] The commission was established in ...
Most native languages are part of the Philippine branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is a branch of the Austronesian language family. [474] Spanish-based creole varieties, collectively known as Chavacano, are also spoken. [498] Many Philippine Negrito languages have unique vocabularies which survived Austronesian acculturation. [499]
According to Ethnologue, there are about 180 languages spoken in the Philippines. [196] The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines imposed the Filipino language [197] [198] as the national language and designates it, along with the English language, as one of the official languages. Regional languages are designated as auxiliary official languages.
[9] [10] The lingering effects of Spanish amongst the general population nevertheless had notable effects on the lexical development of many Philippine languages, and even Philippine English, in the form of Hispanisms. [11] Tagalog was selected as the basis for a national language in 1937, [12] and has since remained so.