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Topic: Languages of the Philippines

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	Languages
		Language maps, showing the language for each region of the Philippines, can be viewed at the Ethnologue web site.
		The major languages of the northern region are Ilokano, Tagalog, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan languages which are located in northern and central Luzon.
		The southern Philippine languages such as Maranao and Subanun are concentrated in Mindanao.
	www.filipinolanguages.com /languages.html (247 words)

	Languages of the Philippines Summary
		The Philippine languages belong to the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, whose members include languages spoken in areas as far north as Hawaii and as far south as New Zealand, covering the area from Easter Island in South America to Madagascar off the coast of Africa.
		Within the language family, the Philippine languages are most closely related to the languages of Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi in Indonesia; Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysia; and the Malagasy language in Madagascar.
		"The Bisayan dialects of the Philippines: Subgrouping and reconstruction".
	www.bookrags.com /Languages_of_the_Philippines (3571 words)

	Country Summary - Philippines
		The national language is Filipino (based on Tagalog), and the language of the government and higher education is English.
		There are also about 87 national indigenous languages, many of which are the mother tongue of 85% of the population.
		The Philippines is a republic with executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
	www.tulane.edu /~internut/Countries/Philippines/philippinesxx.html (854 words)

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		It is the predominate language of Manila and Luzon.
		Visayan is the predominant language of the Visayan islands and Mindanao.
		The Cebuano Language is spoken primarily on the island province of Cebu.
	www.filipinaladies.com /new/filipino-language-software.htm (875 words)

	Languages of the Philippines
		Tagalog is the dominant native language in the Philippines with Cebuano, a subgroup of Visayan, in a close second place.
		For languages spoken in the central region of the Philippines or Visayan region.
		Hokkien Chinese is the language of the majority the Chinese in the Philippines, who immigrated from the Fujian (pronounced locally as Fookien or Hokkien) province in China.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/la/languages_of_the_philippines.html (920 words)

	Languages of the Philippines - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		While Filipino is the national language, both Filipino and English are considered official languages of the country according to the constitution.
		A total of one hundred seventy-two native languages and dialects are spoken, all belonging to the Austronesian linguistic family.
		English is an official language in the Philippines, imposed on by Americans during U.S. colonization after the Philippine-American War.
	www.music.us /education/L/Languages-of-the-Philippines.htm (1128 words)

	Kasaysayan, Panitikan, Tula, Awitin, Mga Bayani ng Lahi, EMANILA.com
		It is one particular language that is spoken by one of the ethnolinguistic groups in the country, the Tagalogs.
		The essence of the concept of Filipino as based on the languages of the Philippines is its being the national lingua francua.
		She was a former chairperson of the said Department and currently president of SANGFIL (Sanggunian ng Mga Kolehiyo at Unibersidad sa Filipino), an organisation of the Departments of Filipino from various colleges and universities in the country at the tertiary level.
	www.emanila.com /pilipino/various/ntu_tagalog.htm (1055 words)

	SIL Philippines Branch, Index
		SIL Philippines, a branch of SIL International, is a volunteer, non-profit organization that has worked in the Philippines since 1953.
		In cooperation with the Philippines Department of Education, SIL members carry out linguistic research and documentation of Philippine indigenous languages.
		As appropriate to the language community, SIL also promotes literacy, health, and community development projects among speakers of those languages, as well as translation of materials of high moral value into the vernacular.
	www.sil.org /asia/philippines (73 words)

	Urban Dictionary: tagalog
		Dialect in the Philippines - mainly a mixture of malayo-polynesian language with a twist of spanish.
		A language native to the southern part of the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
		The Tagalog language is the main base language for the one of the official languages of the Philippines, Filipino (the other official language is English).
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=tagalog (346 words)

	BT Research - Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Philippines has a presidential-unitary form government, where the President functions as both head of state and head of government, and is commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
		The Philippines is a significant source of migrant workers; as of 2004, the Philippine government has estimated that there are over 8 million Overseas Filipinos while independent estimates by various Philippine civic organizations estimate the number at 11 million.
		Spanish was the language of Philippine Revolution, and the 1899 Malolos Constitution proclaimed it as the official language.
	www.breathittteens.com /research.php?title=Philippines (4261 words)

	Filipino language at AllExperts
		Filipino (formerly called Pilipino) is the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippinesâ"along with Englishâ"as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution.
		The language, a member of the Austronesian languages, is a standardized dialect of Tagalog.
		The problem with this view is that linguistically, Philippine languages are not dialects of the same language, but are separate and distinct languages in their own right.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fi/filipino_language.htm (863 words)

	Facts about the Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Philippines is made up of 7,107 islands where the main island groups are Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
		The Philippines is a vibrant democracy, as evidenced by 12 English national newspapers, 7 national television stations, hundreds of cable TV stations, and 2,000 radio stations.
		Despite pockets of extreme poverty, it is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world and its metropolitan area is the country's economic, cultural, educational, and industrial center.
	www.filtravel.com /eng/index.php?pid=40 (1373 words)

	Philippines : Gov.Ph : About the Philippines : (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The national language of the Philippines is Filipino.
		For purposes of communication and instruction, the official languages of the Philippines are Filipino and, until otherwise provided by law, English.
		The regional languages are the auxiliary official languages in the regions and shall serve as auxiliary media of instruction therein.
	www.gov.ph /aboutphil/a14.asp (1164 words)

	Ilocano
		Languages of the World is brought to you by the National Virtual Translation Center.
		Ilocano is spoken as a first language by some 8 million people in Northern Luzon and in various parts of the Philippines (Ethnologue), and as a second language by another 1-2 million speakers in the northern areas of Luzon.
		Prior to the arrival of Spanish missionaries, Ilocano, along with other languages of the Philippines, was written in a syllabic script based on the Brahmi script of India.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/Ilokano.html (629 words)

	Languages of the philippines
		languages of the philippines, and a tad up-to minute suggetions might be considered.
		Correspondingly, www.philippines-spot.com will clarify for you concerning languages of the philippines and the full region next to Philippines and languages of the philippines.
		Philippines images are licensed from World66.com under, and are hereby subject to, the Creative Commons License.
	www.philippines-spot.com /Philippines-Articles/languages-of-the-philippines.html (167 words)

	Languagelinks.org \| The Languages of the Philippines
		Philippine languages may be classified into six subgroups: Northern Philippines, Southern Philippines, Meso-Philippines, Southern Mindanao, Sama-Bajaw, and Celebes Sangir.
		The Northern Luzon subgroup is composed of Southern Cordilleran, Ilokano, and South-Central Cordilleran; The second subgroup is composed of Bashic, Central Luzon, and Norhtern Minodoro languages.
		Four Philippine languages are listed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) in the "Top 100 languages by Population" --Tagalog (number 57), Cebuano (# 61), Ilokano (# 91), and Hiligaynon (#100).
	www.languagelinks.org /onlinepapers/fil_lang.html (570 words)

	languages
		The province of Romblon lies near the center of the Philippines and borders on Mindoro Island to the west, Marinduque Island to the north, Masbate Province to the east, and Panay Island to the south.
		All of the languages of the Philippines except Samalan (Blust 1991) are classified as Philippine languages under the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian.
		More recently, all of these languages have borrowed from Tagalog, especially since it is used in the media and is taught in schools as the national language of the Philippines.
	quicksitemaker.com /members/merano/language.html (3822 words)

	Languages
		The 1935, Philippine Constitution mandated that a national language was to be adopted and developed based on one of the existing native languages.
		In 1937, the Institute of National Language (INL), recommended that Tagalog be the basis for the adoption of the national language.
		The national language shall replace an elective in each semester of the second year in normal schools and shall be an additional subject of all secondary schools.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch632/studentactivities/filipino/languages.html (727 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Country profiles \| Country profile: The Philippines
		Two presidents of the Philippines were forced from office by "people power" in the space of 15 years.
		Though it once boasted one of the region's best-performing economies, the Philippines is saddled with a large national debt and tens of millions of people live in poverty.
		The Philippines has the highest birth rate in Asia, and forecasters say the population could double within three decades.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1262783.stm (832 words)

	Philippines: Language, Culture, Etiquette and Customs
		Filipino (formerly Pilipino) is based on Tagalog and is the official language of the Philippines.
		The Philippines are the third largest group of English speaking people in the world, after the United States and the United Kingdom.
		Since English is widely spoken in the Philippines, it is common to hear Filipinos use a mixture English and Filipino words or phrases, known as "Taglish" (a mixture of English and Tagalog), in their everyday conversations.
	www.kwintessential.co.uk /resources/global-etiquette/philippines-country-profile.html (1302 words)

	Cebuano
		The name comes from the name of the Philippine island of Cebu + the Spanish suffix -ano meaning 'native of.' It is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian group of languages within the Austronesian language family.
		It is estimated that there are about 20 million people in the Philippines who speak Cebuano as their first language (Ethnologue).
		Cebuano is a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/Cebuano.html (967 words)

	Information About Waray
		Waray-Waray is a language spoken in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines.
		When Filipinos refer to their languages as 'dialects' they are referring to the lack of political status of most Philippine languages rather than the inherent linguistic nature of their tongues.
		The Visayan languages are a group of languages within the Central Philippine group of languages (which includes the Bikol languages and Tagalog) that are linguistically related and are (generally) referred to by their speakers as Bisaya or Binisaya.
	www.angelfire.com /indie/warayglimpses/FAQ.htm (1407 words)

	The languages of the philippines
		don't forget the languages of the philippines news, the languages of the philippines reports and the languages of the philippines newsletters.
		Visit www.philippines-spot.com, and surf supplementary information as to not only the languages of the philippines, but also Baguio and Calbayog.
		Correspondingly, www.philippines-spot.com will clarify for you concerning the languages of the philippines and the complete region surrounding Philippines and the languages of the philippines.
	www.philippines-spot.com /Philippines-Europe/the-languages-of-the-philippines.html (188 words)

	Philippines National Official Language
		Tagalog = is the native language in the Katagalogan region.
		This was made official upon the Philippines' restoration of independence from the United States on July 4, 1946.
		President Manuel L. Quezon proclaimed Tagalog the Official National Language of the Philippines which was then made official on the July 4, 1946 upon restoration of independence from the United States.
	www.learntagalognow.com /Philippines_Language_Official_National.html (652 words)

	General Information About The Philippines
		English is widely spoken in urban areas and is the medium of instruction in higher education as well as being the language of commerce.
		The 2000 census is ten times the Philippine population in 1903 of 7,635,426 persons when the first census that counted the population in the entire archipelago was undertaken.
		The Philippine Archipelago is one of the largest island groups in the world and is divided into three major areas that correspond broadly to the ethnicity of the human population.
	www.philippinesangeles.org /general_information.htm (839 words)

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