English dialect spoken primarily in the Philippines
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Philippine English
Native to
Philippines
Region
Southeast Asia
Native speakers
L1: 200,000 (2020)[1] L2 speakers: 52 million (2020)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Ingvaeonic
Anglo-Frisian
Anglic
English
Philippine English
Early forms
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
American English
Official status
Official language in
Philippines
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
phil1246
IETF
en-PH[2]
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Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is any variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries. English is taught in schools as one of the two official languages of the country, the other being Filipino. Due to the influx of Filipino English teachers overseas, Philippine English is also becoming the prevalent variety of English being learned in the Far East as taught by Filipino teachers in various Asian countries such as South Korea, Japan and Thailand, among others.[citation needed] Due to the highly multilingual nature of the Philippines, code-switching such as Taglish (Tagalog-infused English) and Bislish (English infused with any of the Bisayan languages) is prevalent across domains from casual settings to formal situations.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
^ abPhilippines in Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2022). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (25th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
^"Philippines". Retrieved May 22, 2020.
^Bautista, Ma. Lourdes (2004). "Tagalog-English code-switching as a mode of discourse" (PDF). Asia-Pacific Education Review. 5 (2): 225–233. doi:10.1007/BF03024960. S2CID 145684166.
^Bautista, Ma. Lourdes (1998). "Tagalog-English code-switching and the lexicon of Philippine English". Asian Englishes. 1 (1): 51–67. doi:10.1080/13488678.1998.10800994.
^Erwin-Billones, Clark (2012). Code-switching in Filipino newspapers: Expansion of language, culture and identity(PDF) (Master's). Colorado State University. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
^Dayag, Danilo (2002). "Code-switching in Philippine print ads: A syntactic-pragmatic description". Philippine Journal of Linguistics. 33 (1): 34–52.
^Bernardo, Andrew (2005). "Bilingual code-switching as a resource for learning and teaching: Alternative reflections on the language and education issue in the Philippines". In Dayag, Danilo; Quakenbush, J. Stephen (eds.). Linguistics and Language Education in the Philippines and Beyond: A Festschrift in Honor of Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista. Linguistic Society of the Philippines. pp. 151–169.
^Cook, Erin (March 26, 2018). "How the Philippine media's use of code switching stands apart in Asia". Retrieved December 31, 2018.
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