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Filipino (English: / ˌ f ɪ l ɪ ˈ p iː n oʊ / ⓘ; 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, with English ...
- 28 million (2022), 82 million total speakers (2022)
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Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is any variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries.
Filipino is a form of the Tagalog language. It is the national language of the Philippines. About one third of the people in the Philippines speak Tagalog as a first language. Young man speak Filipino. Filipino is used as the formal name of Tagalog. Sometimes it even means the same thing.
Classification. Tagalog is a Northern Philippine language within the Austronesian language family. Being Malayo-Polynesian, it is related to other Austronesian languages, such as Malagasy, Javanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum (of Timor), and Yami (of Taiwan). [4]
- 28 million (2022), 82 million total speakers (2022)
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Tagalog [3] is one of the main languages spoken in the Philippines and is the national language of the country. More than 22 million people speak it as their first language . It was originally spoken by the Tagalog people in the Philippines, who were mainly in Bulacan, Cavite, and some parts of Luzon.
- 28 million (2007), 96% of the Philippines can speak Tagalog (2000)
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The Tagalog Wikipedia was launched on December 1, 2003, [citation needed] as the first Wikipedia in a language of the Philippines. As of February 3, 2011, it has more than 50,000 articles.
Filipino is generally used as an alternative name for Tagalog, or specifically for the Metro Manila dialect of Tagalog. Since 1978 Filipino has been used as the language of instruction in schools and universities throughout the Philippines, though English is widely used as well. The Filipino alphabet has undergone a number of changes over the ...