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National and official languages Language map of the 12 recognized auxiliary languages based on Ethnologue maps. History. Spanish was the official language of the country for more than three centuries under Spanish colonial rule, and became the lingua franca of the Philippines in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1863, a Spanish decree introduced universal education, creating free public ...
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There are some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago. A number of Spanish-influenced creole varieties generally called Chavacano along with some local varieties of Chinese are also spoken in certain communities. The 1987 constitution designates Filipino, a standardized ...
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There's no easy way to say what language is spoken in the Philippines, unless you're willing to name and enumerate nearly 200 of them. There are 183 living languages currently spoken in the Philippines, the vast majority of which are indigenous tongues.. This sounds like a lot until you consider the fact that the Philippines consist of 7,641 individual islands.
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Find out more about the major languages spoken in the Philippines with our complete list: Filipino Language. The Filipino language is the national language of the Philippines, with 28 million native speakers. It is known as a standardized version of Tagalog that comes from the Austronesian language families.
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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 Austronesian languages. Although the Philippines is near the center of ...
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