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Languages of the Philippines. There are some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. [3] [4] [5] [6] Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago.
- Malay Language in The Philippines
Malay (Filipino: Wikang Malayo; Malay: Bahasa Melayu) is...
- Tagalog Language
Classification. Tagalog is a Northern Philippine language...
- Kapampangan
Kapampangan, Capampáñgan, or Pampangan is an Austronesian...
- Chavacano
Chavacano or Chabacano ([tʃabaˈkano]) is a group of...
- Malay Language in The Philippines
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Ethnolinguistic map. Ethnologue lists 186 languages for the Philippines, 182 of which are living languages; the other four no longer have any known speakers. Most native languages are part of the Philippine branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is a branch of the Austronesian language family.
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History and criticism
One of the first explicit classifications of a "Philippine" grouping based on genetic affiliation was in 1906 by Frank Blake, who placed them as a subdivision of the "Malay branch" within Malayo-Polynesian (MP), which at that time was considered as a family. Blake however encompasses every language within the geographic boundaries of the Philippine archipelago to be under a single group. Formal arguments in support of a specific "Proto-Philippines" were followed by Matthew Charles in 1974, Te...
Internal classification
The Philippine group is proposed to have originated from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian and ultimately from Proto-Austronesian. There have been several proposals as to the composition within the group, but the most widely accepted groupings today is the consensus classifications by Blust (1991; 2005) and Reid (2017); however, both disagree on the existence of a Philippine group as a single genetic unit.
Comparison chart between several selected Philippine languages spoken from north to south with Proto-Austronesianfirst for comparison.
1. Ambiguous relationship with other Northern Philippine groups2. ^ Ambiguous relationship with other Northern Philippine groups and has possible relationship with South Extension; equivalent to the widely established Batanicor Bashiic branch.Background. The Philippines is a multilingual state with 175 living languages originating and spoken by various ethno-linguistic groups. Many of these languages descend from a common Malayo-Polynesian language due to the Austronesian migration from Taiwan.
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.
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