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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.
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 ...
A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ / tə-GAH-log, [4] native pronunciation: [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, mostly as or through Filipino.
Cebuano (/ s ɛ ˈ b w ɑː n oʊ / se-BWAH-noh) [2] [3] [4] is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines by Cebuano people and other Ethnic groups as secondary language. . It is natively, though informally, called by its generic term Bisayâ ([bisəˈjaʔ]) or Binisayâ ([bɪniːsəˈjaʔ]) (both terms are translated into English as Visayan, though this should not be ...
It is the second-most widely spoken language in the Visayas and belongs to the Bisayan languages, and it is more distantly related to other Philippine languages. It also has one of the largest native language-speaking populations of the Philippines, despite it not being taught and studied formally in schools and universities until 2012. [4]
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.
Chavacano or Chabacano (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaβaˈkano]) is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines.The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers.
Philippine Hokkien [f] is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch of Min Chinese descended directly from Old Chinese of the Sinitic family, primarily spoken vernacularly by Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese lingua franca [8] [9] within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts as the heritage language of a majority ...