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Filipino Americans (Filipino: Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipinos in North America were first documented in the 16th century and other small settlements beginning in the 18th century.
- List of Filipino Americans
This is a list of Filipino Americans who have made...
- Demographics of Filipino Americans
Due to the significant increase of Indian Americans,...
- List of Filipino Americans
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)
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North America is home to many language families and some language isolates. In the Arctic north, the Eskimo–Aleut languages are spoken from Alaska to Greenland. This group includes the Aleut language of the Aleutian Islands, the Yupik languages of Alaska and the Russian Far East, and the Inuit languages of Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, ...
The most widely spoken language in North America is English, followed in prevalence by Spanish, and French a distant third place. These three languages were brought to North America as a result of the colonization of basically the entire continent by settlers from Europe. English is the predominant language of Canada, the United States, Bermuda, an...
Today, Tagalog, together with its standardized form Filipino, is spoken by over a million and a half Filipino Americans and is promoted by Filipino American civic organizations and Philippine consulates.
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Aug 24, 2021 · Tagalog, a language widely spoken in the Philippines, is the fifth most-spoken language in North America with about 2 million speakers. About 1.6 million of them live in the United States, where the language is one of the most-spoken languages .
Tagalog is classified as a Central Philippine language, and is therefore closely related to the Bikol, Bisayan and Mansakan languages. Zorc theorizes that the Tagalog people originated in the general area of the Eastern Visayas or northeastern Mindanao, probably specifically around southern Leyte.
Filipino Americans. Ilocano, Pangasinan, Kapampangan, Bikol, Visayan languages ( Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray ), and other languages of the Philippines. [11] Filipino Americans are people with Filipino ethnicity who are citizens, nationals, or residents of the United States .
