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It is the world's twelfth-most-populous country, with diverse ethnicities and cultures. Manila is the country's capital, and its most populated city is Quezon City. Both are within Metro Manila . Negritos, the archipelago's earliest inhabitants, were followed by waves of Austronesian peoples.
Rowing out from Tinutu' Village, a Sama village outside of Sulu where several Central Sinama dialects are spoken. Most notably Sinama Musu' and Sinama Silumpak. The Sama–Bajaw languages are a well-established group of languages spoken by the Sama-Bajau peoples ( sea gypsies) of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia .
Central Bontok. Language codes. ISO 639-3. lbk. Glottolog. cent2292. Central Bontok (or Kali) is a language of the Bontoc group from the Philippines. The 2007 census claimed there were 19,600 speakers. [1]
Classification. Similarities between Mongondow and the languages of the Philippines were already recognized in the first half of the 20th century. Noorduyn (1982) presented phonological and morphological evidence for a close connection between Gorontalo and Mongondow, while the full extent of the subgroup including all other Gorontalic languages was established by Usup (1986).
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 ...
Batak is an Austronesian language spoken by the Batak people on Palawan Island in the Philippines. It is sometimes disambiguated from the Batak languages as Palawan Batak . Batak is spoken in the communities of Babuyan, Maoyon, Tanabag, Langogan, Tagnipa, Caramay, and Buayan. Surrounding languages include Southern Tagbanwa, Central Tagbanwa ...
Category. : Philippine languages. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Philippine languages. Philippine languages — of the Malayo-Polynesian languages subgroup of the Austronesian languages. The Philippine languages make up the oldest non-Formosan branch of the Austronesian languages family. For other languages spoken in the Philippines ...
