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Central Philippine
Geographic
distribution
Philippines
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Philippine?
      • Greater Central Philippine
        • Central Philippine
Proto-languageProto-Central Philippine
Subdivisions
  • Kasiguranin–Tagalog
  • Bikol
  • Mansakan
  • Bisayan
Glottologcent2246

The Central Philippine languages are the most geographically widespread demonstrated group of languages in the Philippines, being spoken in southern Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and Sulu. They are also the most populous, including Tagalog (and Filipino), Bikol, and the major Visayan languages Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Kinaray-a, and Tausug, with some forty languages all together.[1]

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Mindanao languages

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Bikol languages

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Subanen languages

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Central Bikol

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dialect. Central Bikol features some vocabulary not found in other Bikol languages nor in other members of the Central Philippine language family like...

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Tagalog language

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official languages, alongside English. Tagalog is closely related to other Philippine languages, such as the Bikol languages, the Bisayan languages, Ilocano...

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Central Philippine University

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Southern Mindoro languages

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Bicol Region

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Central Luzon

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