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Tagalog and Bisaya are the most commonly spoken native language groups. Filipino and English are the official languages of the Philippines. The official languages were used as the main modes of instruction in schools, allowing mother tongues as auxiliary languages of instruction. [14]
Not all of the languages spoken in the Philippines are indigenous. This country is home to a large number of immigrants as well, which is reflected in its wide variety of foreign languages. These languages include Chinese (various types), Arabic, Japanese, Spanish, Malay, Tamil, and Korean.
Due to its status at the time as the main language spoken in Manila, Tagalog became the national language of the Philippines in 1937 when Congress voted to include a native language among the officially recognized languages.
Indigenous Philippine languages are known for their rich oral traditions and cultural significance. They reflect the diverse heritage of different regions within the country. Each native language has its own distinct vocabulary, grammar rules, and pronunciation.
The Philippines is a multilingual state with 175 living languages originating and spoken by various ethno-linguistic groups. Many of these languages descend from a common Malayo-Polynesian language due to the Austronesian migration from Taiwan.
The most important languages in the central division are Tagalog (a standardized form of which, Pilipino, is the official national language) and Cebuano. The most important in the northern division is Ilocano.
Filipino is a native language based on Tagalog; English has official status due to the Philippines being a colony of the United States between 1898 and 1946. Schools and the media largely use Filipino; it is the lingua franca that binds the country’s various linguistic communities together.
Native Languages of the Philippine. The Philippines is home to an astonishing array of native languages, each with its own cultural significance and linguistic nuances. These languages have been passed down through generations, serving as a vessel for traditional stories, customs, and ways of life.
The Philippines’ national language is Filipino. As mentioned earlier, de jure, it is a language that will be enriched from other languages in the Philippines. De facto, it is structurally based on Tagalog, the language of Manila and the CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Quezon) region (Gonzalez, 2006). SPANISH COLONISATION.
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—and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages.