Philippine language information

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...

declares Filipino Sign Language or FSL as the country's official sign language and as the Philippine government's official language in communicating with...

Philippine language may refer to: the Filipino language, a standardized register of the Tagalog language and national language of the Philippines one of...

Pambansâ (National Language) giving the following factors: Tagalog is widely spoken and is the most understood language in all the Philippine Regions. It is...

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

The Central Philippine languages are the most geographically widespread demonstrated group of languages in the Philippines, being spoken in southern Luzon...

the two official languages of the country, the other being Filipino. Due to the influx of Filipino English teachers overseas, Philippine English is also...

Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines. The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of...

The Greater Central Philippine languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family, defined by the change of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian...

varieties of the language. Philippine Spanish also employs vocabulary unique to the dialect, reflecting influence from the native languages of the Philippines...

widely spoken language in the Visayas and belongs to the Bisayan languages, and it is more distantly related to other Philippine languages. It also has...

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

knowledge of the language. It served as the country's first official language as proclaimed in the Malolos Constitution of the First Philippine Republic in...

demonstrating proficiency in either English or Spanish as well as a Philippine language, and fulfilling a good character requirement. The Philippines was...

The Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language (Spanish: Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española, abbreviated AFLE; Filipino: Akademyang Pilipino ng Wikang...

Kaidipang is a Philippine language spoken in North Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia. Kaidipang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Kaidipang...

Yami language (Chinese: 雅美語), also known as Tao language (Chinese: 達悟語), is a Malayo-Polynesian and Philippine language spoken by the Tao people of Orchid...

Bintauna is a Philippine language spoken in North Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia. Bintauna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Hunggu...

States, the Philippine English lexicon shares most of its vocabulary from American English, but also has loanwords from native languages and Spanish,...

to the language simply as Binisayâ or Bisayà. The Cebuano language is a descendant of the hypothesized reconstructed Proto-Philippine language, which...

Philippine Hokkien is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch of Min Chinese descended directly from Old Chinese of the Sinitic family...

Tau Bilil, Tau Bulul or Tagabilil, is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, mainly in the province of South Cotabato...

creole languages in the world. Among Philippine languages, it is the only one not an Austronesian language, but like Malayo-Polynesian languages, it uses...

Visayas. Old Tagalog is one of the Central Philippine languages, which evolved from the Proto-Philippine language, which comes from the Austronesian peoples...

tasked with developing, preserving, and promoting the various local Philippine languages. The commission was established in accordance with the 1987 Constitution...

Lolak is a Philippine language spoken in Lolak town, Bolaang Mongondow Regency, North Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia. There are fewer than 50 speakers...

re-designated as a voluntary and optional auxiliary language. Additionally, the present Philippine Constitution, in its Article XIV, stipulates that the...

symbols instead of currency signs. The Philippine peso, also referred to by its Filipino name piso (Philippine English: /ˈpɛsɔː/ PEH-saw, /ˈpiː-/ PEE-...