Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Saraiki is the first language of approximately 29 million people in Pakistan according to the 2023 census. [7] The first national census of Pakistan to gather data on the prevalence of Saraiki was the census of 1981. [43] In that year, the percentage of respondents nationwide reporting Saraiki as their native language was 9.83.
2 List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used. ... (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Bikol, ... Saraiki. Pakistan ...
The Malay language, a Malayo-Polynesian language alongside the Philippine languages, has had an immense influence on many of the languages of the Philippines. This is because Old Malay used to be the lingua franca throughout the archipelago, a good example of this is Magellan's translator Enrique using Malay to converse with the native ...
The Philippines' Department of Education first implemented the program in the 2012–2013 school year. Mother Tongue as a subject is primarily taught in kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3. Mother Tongue as a subject is primarily taught in kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language (disputed)—and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages.
Saraiki has a 43-letter alphabet which include four letters that are not used in standard Shahmukhi. [3] Another difference the Saraiki alphabet has with standard Shahmukhi is the disuse of the already uncommon Lam with tah above which is present in the standard form.
Philippine languages — of the Malayo-Polynesian languages subgroup of the Austronesian languages. The Philippine languages make up the oldest non-Formosan branch of the Austronesian languages family. For other languages spoken in the Philippines archipelago, see: Languages of the Philippines.