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	Languages of the Philippines - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Meso Philippine languages are perhaps the group with the most speakers and is the most geographically widespread, covering Central Luzon, the Visayan islands and many parts of Mindanao.
		Southern Philippine languages such as Maranao, Maguindanao, Manobo languages, and Subanun languages are concentrated in Mindanao.
		Southern Mindanao languages are languages such as Tboli and Blaan which are spoken in southern Mindanao.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Languages_of_the_Philippines (2387 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 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.
	www.bookrags.com /Languages_of_the_Philippines (3571 words)

	Facts - Demographics
		The Maguindanaos are settled in the municipalities of Malapatan, Maitum, and Maasim; Tbolis reside mostly in Maitum, Kiamba, and Maasim while Tagakaolos subsist entirely in Malungon.
		Thus, Sarangani’s mixed population of Cebuano-speaking Blaans and Muslims in the east coast, Ilocano-speaking Tbolis, Manobos and Muslims in the west coast, and Ilonggo-speaking Blaans and Kaolos in the north uplands, is unique and in harmony.
		Blaan dialect is spoken by 12.92 percent; Hiligaynon, 7.55 percent; Ilocano, 5.70 percent; Maguindanaon, 5.51 percent; Tboli, 4.42 percent; Tagacaolo, 2.79 percent; Kalagan, 0.90 percent; Aklanon, 0.82 percent; and Sangil, 0.81 percent.
	sarangani.freewebspace.com /facts/fct-demog.html (555 words)

	Salita Blog: August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is part of the Philippine language family, and is particularly close to Ivatan and Itbayat of Batanes.
		Yami is the only Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan that is considered part of the vast Malayo-Polynesian subfamily that includes languages as far west as Malagasy and as far east as Hawaiian and Rapa Nui.
		The languages will not disappear as long as it is spoken at home, on the streets, or anywhere in the child's life.
	salitablog.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_salitablog_archive.html (1910 words)

	Tagalog language information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tagalog (pronunciation: [tɐˈgaːlog]) is one of the major language of the Republic of the Philippines.
		Being an Austronesian language, it is related to Indonesian, Malay, Fijian, Maori (of New Zealand), Hawaiian, Malagasy (of Madagascar), Samoan, Tahitian, Chamorro (of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands), Tetum (of East Timor), and Paiwan (of Taiwan).
		Languages that have made significant contributions to Tagalog are Spanish, Fukien Chinese, English, Malay, Sanskrit (via Malay), Arabic (via Malay/Spanish), and Northern Philippine languages such asKapampangan spoken on the island of Luzon.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Tagalog_language (2969 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)

	Tboli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their whereabouts and identity is to some extend confused in the literature; some publications present the Tboli and the Tagabili as distinct peoples; some locate the Tbolis to the vicinity of the Buluan Lake in the Cotabato Basin or in Agusan del Norte.
		The Tbolis, then, reside on the mountain slopes on either side of the upper Alah Valley and the coastal area of Maitum, Maasim and Kiamba.
		The Tboli have a musical heritage consisting of various types of agung ensembles - ensembles composed of large hanging, suspended or held, bossed/knobbed gongs which act as drone without any accompanying melodic instrument.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tboli (332 words)

	Bibliographic Standards:UKMARC Manual
		Where one spoken language is written in two different sets of characters, both languages have been included in the list but only one code has been assigned.
		An ancient language form that does not have a unique code will be assigned the code for the major language group to which it belongs instead of the code for the modern form.
		Language codes are arranged in two alphabetical sequences, by language and by language code.
	www.bl.uk /services/bibliographic/marc/marcappbt.html (361 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.
		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)

	Salita Blog: Lake Sebu videos
		All of the languages indigenous to the area belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
		Tboli is unlike other Philippine languages I've encountered, which is probably why it's not classified in the same family other Philippine languages.
		The language reminds me of Khmer (of Cambodia) or a Slavic language like Czech with complex consonant clusters at the beginning of a word.
	salitablog.blogspot.com /2004/08/lake-sebu-videos.html (274 words)

	Preserving Culture: the T'boli of Mindanao
		The T'Boli women in full traditional costume are stunning: small and Malaysian-looking in many-colored sarongs and delicately embroidered blouses, women and girls adorned with foot-long earrings, layers of necklaces, hats as large as umbrellas, stacks of anklets and bracelets: red, blue, fl, white, green, turquoise.
		Her words were couched in the incessant hum and trill of birds and crickets from the rain forest that surrounded the house.
		Her daughter brought out her tribal clothing: necklaces, bracelets, earrings, the 13-pound brass belt adorned with T'Boli bells and carved metal, an embroidered shirt, eight thick brass anklets and six wrist bracelets, the beaded wooden hairpiece and a pair of earrings which extended from the earlobe and wrapped around the neck like a collar.
	www.devcomm.com /tboli_culture.htm (2971 words)

	Ethnologue: Philippines
		Of those, 168 are living languages and 3 are extinct.
		Distinct from Ata Manobo or the Atta languages.
		The major language of Zamboanga city; used in radio, newspapers, and primary education.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Phil.html (5714 words)

	- Philippines
		The Tboli live in the hills surrounding Lake Sebu, on the island of Mindanao, Philippines.
		Lute music in Tboli country", a CD dedicated to the hegelung lute, was released in October 2002 by Buda Musique.
		ICRA International, a Tboli language lexicon meant to be available to the public through internet.
	www.altamiraworld.net /actions/philippines.html (222 words)

	tasaday
		Often, however, in the quote accounts and comments, translated from their own language, we face the problem of not knowing how the discussion was recorded and edited for presentation.
		The analysis and interpretation of Tasaday culture, language, and social organization is scattered, weak, often disorganized, and highly speculative.
		Their language has its closest relationship to Manubo Blit, the language of a neighboring people which was also recorded for the first time during our trips to the Tasaday.
	litera1no4.tripod.com /tasaday_frame.html (6885 words)

	Languages or Dialects?
		In linguistics, the term dialect usually refers to a variety of a language in a region whose inhabitants' personal use of a language are similar.
		As stated, a dialect is a regional variant of a language.
		This, whether or not two speech varieties are mutual intelligible, is the principal criterion in distinguishing a dialect from a language.
	www.geocities.com /csundita/filipiniana/rplanguages.html (1040 words)

	Bilingual Education: Building new bridges
		For Tboli children of Mindanao, learning to read in their own language has helped them master English and Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines.
		The bilingual approach has also helped deal with the problem of dropouts which afflicts many communities where the language of instruction is other than the language of the child [Dropping out from community schools: the extent, the causes and possible remedies.
		These educators are interested in developing and maintaining the richness and vitality of their first language and culture.
	www.sil.org /literacy/lit90/bilieduc.htm (544 words)

	Appendix
		According to Reid, the original word is unknown because the ancient speakers of the Proto-Philippine language are dead.
		The term for 'fresh water' was wa'iR, hence Bontok, etc, wa'il 'stream'; Manobo languages* wayig, and similar forms; T'boli 'el; Maguindanao 'ig 'water', all of which reflect the reconstructed term faithfully, according to the phonological developments of each language.
		There are no languages in the Philippines that reflect a term 'ag'.
	cagayan.elizaga.net /appendix.html (752 words)

	Languages of the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aklanon: Ro uwa' gatan-aw sa anang ginhalinan hay indi makaabut sa anang ginapaeangpan.
		It was imposed by Americans during the U.S. intervention and colonization of the archipelago.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Languages_of_the_Philippines (2585 words)

	Everytongue.com Language Learning Helps
		First play the language you know (like English) then listen to the language you want to learn (Like Spanish).
		The blue hyper links are for languages that you can listen to on-line.
		If the language is in fl then you can buy the recording from here.
	www.everytongue.com /learn.htm (418 words)

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		A place for comment on Bardi, Australian languages, and language and linguistics.
		All of the languages indigenous to the area belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. Examples of Philippine languages are: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Kapampangan, Waray-Waray, Pangasinan, Kinaray-a, Maranao, Maguindanao, Tausug, Tboli, Ifugao, Ibanag, Gaddang and many others.
		Emphasis on the Indo-European and Finno-Ugrian/Uralic languages with frequent asides into language rights and language protection.
	www.bloglines.com /relatedfeeds?siteid=969746 (334 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
		Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
		Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
	www.everytongue.com (531 words)

	Targeted Unreached People of Country
		Scripture cassete tapes and sermons on tape in their language is effective.
		The primary language is Tiruray, but the men also speak Tagalog as a second language.
		The T'boli are animistic with other religions mixed in with a pantheon of gods.
	www.ministrytoday.org /unreached/30-week4.htm (439 words)

	Thomas Berry and the New Story
		In addition to his own research, writing, and teaching in the field of Native American religions, Berry's appreciation for native traditions and for the richness of their mythic, symbolic, and ritual life has been enhanced by his encounters with the ideas of Carl Jung and Mircea Eliade.
		It marks a new era of self-reflection for humans, one that Berry has described as the "ecological age"(19) or the beginning of the "ecozoic age" (19).
		He is aware of the barriers theological language sometimes creates in the secular world, particularly among environmentalists and people of different faith commitments.
	ecoethics.net /ops/tucker.htm (5933 words)

	TBOLI language
		There are no other spoken languages and dialects with the same ISO language code as TBOLI.
		See what people groups speak this language from the Joshua Project.
		Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org.
	globalrecordings.net /language/370 (124 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		The nearly 93,000 T'boli (or Tiboli) are a tribal group in the Philippines.
		The T'boli are farmers who practice the swidden (slash and burn) method of agriculture.
		The T'boli live in "long-houses" that are built on six-foot stilts.
	kcm.co.kr /bethany_eng/p_code3/823.html (792 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:TBL
		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).
		Literacy rate in second language: 15% to 20%.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=TBL (73 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Dream Jungle \| Jessica Hagedorn
		In prose that is both ethereal and refreshingly earthy, Hagedorn has written an epic of profound importance and gripping emotion.
		Think about Hagedorn's use of language: characters speak in Tagalog, Spanish, German, and in slang that reflects national, regional, and class differences.
		By sheer chance, Belayem, one of the surviving members of the original Tasaday tribe who met with Elizalde back in the '70s, happened to be in the village market one morning.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/dream_jungle.html (2844 words)

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