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Except for English, Spanish, Chavacano and varieties of Chinese ( Hokkien, Cantonese and Mandarin ), all of the languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. The following are the four Philippine languages with more than five million native speakers: [44] Tagalog. Cebuano.
- Malay Language in The Philippines
Malay (Filipino: Wikang Malayo; Malay: Bahasa Melayu) is...
- Tagalog Language
A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə...
- 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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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.- None
- Proto-Philippine (disputed)
Filipino ( English: / ˌfɪlɪˈpiːnoʊ / ⓘ, FIH-lih-PEE-noh; [1] Wikang Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family. It is the national language ( Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the Philippines, and one of the two official languages ( Wikang opisyal / Opisyal na wika) of the country ...
- 28 million (2022), 82 million total speakers (2022)
- Philippines
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.
Languages of the Philippines. Major language groups on the Philippines. The Phiilippines are a group of islands between Malaysia and Taiwan. Many different groups of people live on the Philippines. Between 120 and 187 languages are spoken on the Phiilippines.
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.
