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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Languages of the Philippines
		Although the teaching of the national language in schools began in 1940, Tagalog was not made an official language until the restoration of its independence on July 4, 1946.
		Spanish ceased to be an official language in 1973 and a college requirement in 1987 during the Aquino administration.
		The Lan-nang variant of the Min Nan is the language of the majority the Chinese in the Philippines, who immigrated from the Fujian (pronounced locally as Fukien or Hokkien) province in China.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Languages_of_the_Philippines (2497 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Mar-Max) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Marka (Dafing) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso and Mali.
		Masbatenyo is a Bisayan language spoken in the Philippines.
		Matya Samo (Tougan) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WMD.HTM (679 words)

	Languages of the Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Although the teaching of the national language in schools began in 1940, Tagalog was not made an official language until the restoration of its independence on July 4, 1946.
		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.
		Spanish ceased to be an official language in 1973 and a required subject in college in 1987 during the Aquino Administration.
	toshare.dynup.net /en/Languages_of_the_Philippines.htm (2041 words)

	NFLRC - National Foreign Language Resource Center
		Language documentation is of course also an issue for scholars who need to conduct research in countries where often only the national language is well documented, as well as for the NRCs that support such scholars.
		The language documentation project has been supported since its inception by the NFLRC and the UH NRCs for Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific Islands, primarily by providing modest stipends to the native speaking participants who are the focus of the project.
		Fall 2005: Establishment of a UH Language Documentation and Conservation Advisory Council, consisting of faculty, students, and department chairs of Linguistics and Second Language Studies, a member of the UH Board of Regents, and the directors of the NFLRC and the three NRCs at the university.
	www.nflrc.hawaii.edu /get_project.cfm?project_number=2010L (946 words)

	Languages of the Philippines Summary
		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 major languages and a number of minority languages are written with the Roman alphabet, which was first introduced by the Spanish Catholic missionaries who came to the islands in the late sixteenth century.
		The Lan-nang variant of the Min Nan 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.bookrags.com /Languages_of_the_Philippines (3571 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:MSB
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		Masbatenyo used in the home, market, at work, on the street.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=MSB (85 words)

	PhilCentral - Languages
		Meso Philippine languages are perhaps the group with the most speakers and is the most geographically widespread, covering Central Luzon, the Visayas and many parts of Mindanao.
		Southern Mindanao languages are languages such as Tboli and Blaan which are spoken in southern Mindanao.
		These languages are arranged according to the regions they are natively spoken (from north to south, then east to west).
	www.philcentral.com /156.html (2190 words)

	Visayan languages at AllExperts
		The Visayan languages of the Philippines, along with Tagalog and Bikol, are part of the Central Philippine language family.
		Most Visayan languages are spoken in the Visayas region but they are also spoken in the Bicol Region (particularly in Sorsogon and Masbate), islands south of Luzon such as those that make up Romblon, the northern and western areas of Mindanao, and the province of Sulu located southwest of Mindanao.
		The Visayan language with the most speakers is Cebuano, spoken by 20 million people as a native language in Central Visayas, northern and eastern parts of Mindanao.
	en.allexperts.com /e/v/vi/visayan_languages.htm (458 words)

	language.html
		English is the language of the public schools (from fourth grade through college) and is the de facto national language of business, commerce, law, government, and often the mass media and popular entertainment.
		Like many other Asian languages, they also have a single word for the gender pronouns "he" and "she." Apart from grammatical and phonological characteristics, it is noteworthy that one particular dialect called "Chabacano" (a local language spoken in the area around the city of Zamboanga in Mindanao) is heavily mixed with Spanish.
		However, as a functional language, Spanish is clearly peripheral, and a relatively small number of Filipinos (primarily Spanish mestizos) speak it fluently (particularly because it was used exclusively by the wealthy, land owning families during the period of Spanish rule, and no more than 10% of the population ever spoke it).
	www.livinginthephilippines.com /philippine_articles/language.html (4484 words)

	Encyclopedia: Masbatenyo language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is a list of languages ordered by number of first-language speakers, with some data for second-language use.
		The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
		SIL International is a non-profit, faith-based, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Masbatenyo-language (279 words)

	wiki/Masbatenyo language Definition / wiki/Masbatenyo language Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Masbatenyo is a VisayanThe Visayan languages of the Philippines, along with Tagalog and Bikol, are part of the Central Philippine language family.
		[click for more] language spoken by more that 600,000 people, primarily in the province of Masbate in the PhilippinesThe Republic of the Philippines is an island nation consisting of an archipelago of 7,107 islands, lying in the tropical western Pacific Ocean about 100 kilometers southeast of mainland Asia.
		AustronesianThe Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Masbatenyo_language (474 words)

	Language
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
		A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
	www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html (462 words)

	languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The languages of Romblon, as well as all languages native to the Philippines, belong to the Austronesian language family, which includes languages spoken in China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and 25 other countries in insular and mainland Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.
		All of the languages of the Philippines except Samalan (Blust 1991) are classified as Philippine languages under the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian.
		It is important to remember that, although linguists subgroup languages by shared similarities and differences in order to discover the historical relationships between these languages, each language may also have similarities to languages from other groups, especially when two languages have been used in close proximity to one another.
	quicksitemaker.com /members/merano/language.html (3822 words)

	Lowlands-L Anniversary Celebration
		Language information: Masbatenyo (or Masbateño, also known as Minasbate) is used by well over half a million people in or from the Philippine province of Masbate and in some adjacent areas.
		It is usually counted as one of the Visayan (or Bisayan) languages, which are used on the Central Philippine Visayan Islands.
		For this reason Masbatenyo may be regarded as belonging to the transitional “Bisakol”; group.
	www.lowlands-l.net /anniversary/masbatenyo-info.php (421 words)

	Bisaya information - Search.com
		These languages, which many times are mistakenly referred to as dialects, are all classified as Austronesian, although they are all mutually unintelligible.
		This probably stems from the inadequacy of English and Tagalog, the two languages with official status in the Philippines, to translate Bisaya and Binisaya accurately.
		One is not a Bisaya because the language one speaks is Binisiya.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Bisaya (1090 words)

	info: LANGUAGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Languages used to prevent fires - Firefighters are being moved from fighting blazes to preventing them across Leicestershire and Rutland.
		Project seeks to preserve world's dying languages - David W. Lightfoot is helping spearhead a government initiative to preserve some of these dying languages, believing each is a window into the human mind that can benefit the world at large.
		Project seeks to preserve dying languages - initiative to preserve some of these dying languages, believing each is a window into the human to lose half the world's languages that endangers our capacity to understand.
	www.info-malta.com /Languages (787 words)

	Languagelinks.org \| The Languages of the Philippines
		Eight languages with the most number of native speakers are considered major languages.
		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.
		The languages in this group are: : Aklanon, Calayunen, Cuyonon, Malaynon, Kinaray-a, Ratagnon; Looknon, Ati, Romblomanon, Sorsogon Gubat, Sorsogon Bicol, Waray; Capiznon, Hiligaynon, Masbatenyo, Porohanon; Surigaonon, Butuanon, Tausug; Cebuano; Bantoanon; Mabinay Ata, Negros Oriental, Ayta (Sorsogon), Ayta (Tayabas), Karolanos (gitnang Negros), Magahat (Southwestern Negros), and Sulod (Tapaz, Capiz).
	www.languagelinks.org /onlinepapers/fil_lang.html (570 words)

	Salita Blog: August 2005
		All of the languages indigenous to the area belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
		By preserving the languages and calling for their use in all areas of societies (the Catalans call it "normalization"), we linguists are out to get a profit by translating and making money off of making books and dictionaries about these languages.
		Masbatenyo itself has a lot of influence from Bikol, Waray-Waray, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Tagalog which is why, he states, that "many semantic concepts in Masbatenyo can be expressed by from two to five alternate and different words for a single concept." Dr. Wolfenden also identifies three major dialects of Masbatenyo.
	salitablog.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_salitablog_archive.html (5808 words)

	Masbatenyo Dictionary
		Masbatenyo is a Visayan language spoken by more that 600,000 speakers, primarily in the province of Masbate.
		As well as the main body of the dictionary, it includes phonological and grammatical sketches of the language and an English index.
		It was beautiful to see the teachers from the various schools and colleges throughout the province gathering to buy copies for their schools.
	www.sil.org /asia/philippines/masbatenyo_dictionary.html (303 words)

	Articles - Visayan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Visayan language with the most number of speakers is Cebuano, spoken by 18 million people as a native language in Central Visayas, northern and eastern parts of Mindanao.
		This is misleading or may lead to confusion as different languages may be called Bisaya by their respective speakers despite their languages being mutually unintelligible.
		However, languages that are classified within the Visayan language family but spoken natively in places outside of the Visayas do not use the self-reference Bisaya or Binisaya.
	www.worldmapa.com /articles/Visayan (469 words)

	wiki/Visayan Definition / wiki/Visayan Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While Filipino is the national language, both Filipino and English are considered official languages of the country according to the constitution.
		Most Visayan languages are spoken in the Visayas region but they are also spoken in the Bicol Region (particularly in SorsogonSorsogon is a province of the Philippines located in the Bicol Region in Luzon.
		The most well-known Visayan language is CebuanoCebuano, also known as Sugbuanon, is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 18,000,000 people and is a subgroup or member of Bisaya, Visayan and Binisayâ.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Visayan (1169 words)

	Mapudungun language resources
		We are actively working on an MT system between Spanish and Mapudungun, a native language spoken in southern Chile, and have started working on Quechua, a native...
		Treuquil co-directed the series, which is bilingual, in Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche, and Spanish.
		Mapudungun (mapu means 'earth' and dungun means 'to speak') is a language isolate spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche (mapu is 'earth' and che means 'people') people.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Mapudungun.html (1029 words)

	National Book Development Board - Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Masbatenyo is a Visayan language spoken by more than 600,000 speakers, primarily in the province of Masbate.
		The works are listed alphabetically by first author, and also indexed by language, language family and topic.
		The Central Subanen language belongs to the Southern Philippine subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian family of Austronesian languages and is estimated to be spoken by between 120,000 and 150,000 people.
	nbdb.gov.ph /catalog/search.php?start=11&str=June%20Exhibit&fld=exhibit&others= (867 words)

	Bantoanon Language
		This language, also spoken in the municipalities of Concepcion (Sibale), Corcuera (Simara), Calatrava and Odiongan, is classified under the same level as Cebuano, one of the major Philippine Languages, in the Austronesian hierarchy of languages.
		Currently, efforts are being exerted so that the Bantoanon Language will finally be considered as one of the literary languages of the Philippines given its wealth of oral and written literature.
		While they love their language, they are fluent in Filipino and are pretty good in understanding and speaking English.
	www.yagting.com /bantonvol01/language.asp (173 words)

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		Central Tagbanwa: A Philippine Language on the Brink of Extinction.
		The Obo Manobo language is spoken by a group of people by that name living on the north and west slopes of Mt. Apo on the boundary between Davao del Sur and Cotabato and several surrounding provinces of southwest Mindanao, Philippines.
		In this volume the writer traces the world-famous swanmaiden motif as it is found in the oral narratives related by twenty-one diverse culture and language groups throughout the Philippines.
	www.sil.org /asia/philippines/book_store.html (2342 words)

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		Get the book that Governor Luis R. Villafuerte said "puts the Bikol language in the context of western linguistics as it also puts the Bikol language in an analytical form that can be appreciated internationally".
		This Philippine Travel Phrase Book is a three-way tool translating between English and the Philippines’ two most widely spoken and understood languages, Tagalog (the Philippine National Language) and Cebuano (the lingua franca of the Bisayas and Mindanao).
		This dictionary by renowned Kapampangan poet Ernesto Turla was compiled with the goal of preserving and propagating the Kapampangan language, as well as introducing the language to foreigners.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~lobel/index.html (762 words)

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