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3 days ago · A key aspect of the Philippines’ linguistic scene is the use of Filipino as a lingua franca. This national language unites Filipinos from diverse backgrounds. It promotes communication and harmony among those who speak various native languages. “The linguistic diversity in the Philippines showcases its cultural wealth and history.
1 day ago · A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ /, tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
- 28 million (2022), 82 million total speakers (2022)
- ɾ ⟨r⟩
- ( ts )
- ( dz )
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6 days ago · Variously spelled as Ilocano, Ilukano, Ilucano, Iluko, Iloco or Iloko, it is the third most-spoken language in the Philippines. The ancestors of the Ilocano people arrived in the Philippines by viray or bilog, meaning ‘boat’. The word Ilokano comes from i- (‘from’) and looc (‘bay’). The Ilocanos are ‘people of the bay.’.
3 days ago · Examples of such words that also reached the Philippines include anluwagi ("carpenter"; from Javanese uṇḍahagi meaning "woodworker" or "carpenter") and gusali ("building"; from Javanese gusali meaning "blacksmith"). As these words are more closely related to their Middle Indo-Aryan counterparts, they are not listed below.
4 days ago · History. Details. Batangas (Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Batangas ), (Spanish: Provincia de Batangas ), is a first class province of the Philippines located on the southwestern part of Luzon in the CALABARZON region. Its capital is Batangas City and it is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and Laguna to the north and Quezon to the east.
3 days ago · IP groups in the Philippines may be classified under eight major groupings that are further subdivided into more than 100 ethno-linguistic groups spread out across over 60 of the country’s provinces. The map below is a simple illustration of the territorial distribution of the major ethnographic classifications of Philippine IPs.
2 days ago · 1. croaking of frogs, flapping of wings of fowls, clacking of wooden slippers; 2. see palagupak; 2a. lesbian, so called from the bamboo clapper which consists of two like-shaped pieces of bamboo; v. 1. make the palakpalak sound; 2. engage in lesbian behavior.
