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Philippine languages, but the orthography generally employs digraphs to spell them: ng, ts/ti/ty/tiy, sy/si/siy, and dy/di/diy, respectively. Moreover, most languages have fewer consonant and vowel phonemes than English, and word-initial consonant clusters such as /str/, /pr/, /sk/, /sp/ and /br/, are rare and found mostly in loan words.
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•Philippine languages generally use a Romanized writing system. It can be categorized into two groups: Spanish-based and Filipino-based. •KWF is propagating the use of Ortograpiyang Pambansa (2013) as the model for creating the orthographies of other Philippine Languages. •Some languages still use a Spanish-based system for certain aspects
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For purposes of communication and instruction, the official languages of the Philippines are Filipino and, until otherwise provided by law, English. The regional languages are the auxiliary official languages in the regions and shall serve as auxiliary media of instruction therein.
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While there are indeed many hundreds of dialects in the Philippines, they represent variations of no fewer than 120 distinct languages, and many of these languages maintain greater differences than those between established European languages like French and Spanish.
The baybayin1 had seventeen basic symbols. Fourteen of these were consonant symbols with the inherent “a” sound (see the chart below): ka, ga, nga, ta, da, na pa, ba, ma ya, la, wa, sa, and ha. Three symbols represented vowel sounds. To change the sound of the consonant symbols, diacritical marks called kudlit (or corlit) were used.
Filipino is the national lingua franca. Philippine languages may be classified into six subgroups: Northern Philippines, Southern Philippines, Meso-Philippines, Southern Mindanao, Sama-Bajaw, and Celebes Sangir. I. THE NORTHERN PHILIPPINES GROUP. This is divided into two subgroups: Northern Luzon and Bashic -Central Luzon-Northern Mindoro.
A subset of Central Philippine languages display three primary aspects which can be termed perfective, progressive and prospective.20 The three way distinction may arise from two atomic features corresponding to reflexes of *<in> and *CV reduplication, as in (22). (22) atomic features <in> BEGUN. CV~ IMPERFECTIVE.
