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How many languages do you have in Philippines? I heard about tagalog and visayas.
How many languages do you have in Philippines? I heard about tagalog and visayas.
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Those who say "dialects" are wrong as fuck.
Tagalog is a language spoken in the northern island of Luzón. It is native to that area. When the Philippine government wanted to create a national language for all citizens to speak, they invented a language called "Filipino". The Filipino language was invented and created by using Tagalog as the base language. The goal of the invented Filipino language is to have it evolve by incorporating elements from other languages whether other Philippine languages or not. The problem is, the constructed Filipino language cannot evolve because it is being regulated by the Commission on the Filipino language, an organization that oversees the invented language. As of today, the Filipino language is still comprehensible to Tagalog speakers, so the Filipino language is a dialect of Tagalog in that manner. A form of the Filipino language is also Taglish, because the Filipino language allows elements from other languages too, so Taglish is a type of Filipino dialect.
In our country we have over 150+ languages spoken.
The official languages are English and Filipino.
There are also commonly spoken languages that you'll hear from different regions. The most commonly spoken Philippine languages are Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Waray-waray, Pangansinense, Chavacano, Cuyonon, Kapampangan, Bicolano and so on.
Visayan (Bisaya) is not a language. It is a language family branch among Philippine languages. Within the Visayan language family are Visayan languages such as: Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray-waray, Masbateño, Surigaonon, Akeanon, and so on.
Spanish is still spoken in the country as is well alive too. The only problem is that there are not a lot of Spanish speakers left who speak Spanish natively as a mother tongue, although they do exist. The Spanish language in the Philippines is regulated by the Real Academia Filipina. The Spanish language will never disappear from the country at all. Philippine Spanish is also a unique dialect of Spanish spoken by Filipinos. There is even Spanish literature from the Philippines and our national anthem is in Spanish.
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We speak tagalog, english, spanish and others do speak chinese. Visaya/Bisaya is just a dialect. There's a lot of dialect in the Philippines.
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@cjtcunanan thank you! isn't tagalog is mix of english, spanish and filipino? And which region speacks pure Spanish?
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No, it is not a mix of english, spanish and filipino. Tagalog is the another term for Filipino. There's no specific region that speaks pure spanish. We're just influenced by the Spaniards, we speak the basics like the spanish of numbers and many other words.
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@cjtcunanan when I visit Coron I notice that language sounds different there, maybe more spanish words in Palawan?
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Those who say "dialects" are wrong as fuck.
Tagalog is a language spoken in the northern island of Luzón. It is native to that area. When the Philippine government wanted to create a national language for all citizens to speak, they invented a language called "Filipino". The Filipino language was invented and created by using Tagalog as the base language. The goal of the invented Filipino language is to have it evolve by incorporating elements from other languages whether other Philippine languages or not. The problem is, the constructed Filipino language cannot evolve because it is being regulated by the Commission on the Filipino language, an organization that oversees the invented language. As of today, the Filipino language is still comprehensible to Tagalog speakers, so the Filipino language is a dialect of Tagalog in that manner. A form of the Filipino language is also Taglish, because the Filipino language allows elements from other languages too, so Taglish is a type of Filipino dialect.
In our country we have over 150+ languages spoken.
The official languages are English and Filipino.
There are also commonly spoken languages that you'll hear from different regions. The most commonly spoken Philippine languages are Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Waray-waray, Pangansinense, Chavacano, Cuyonon, Kapampangan, Bicolano and so on.
Visayan (Bisaya) is not a language. It is a language family branch among Philippine languages. Within the Visayan language family are Visayan languages such as: Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray-waray, Masbateño, Surigaonon, Akeanon, and so on.
Spanish is still spoken in the country as is well alive too. The only problem is that there are not a lot of Spanish speakers left who speak Spanish natively as a mother tongue, although they do exist. The Spanish language in the Philippines is regulated by the Real Academia Filipina. The Spanish language will never disappear from the country at all. Philippine Spanish is also a unique dialect of Spanish spoken by Filipinos. There is even Spanish literature from the Philippines and our national anthem is in Spanish.
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There's a lot of languages here in Philippines.
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Tagalog is not the same as Filipino. But it is practically the same. hahaha
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we have a lot. i can't even it with my hands
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our language has been mixed up to spanish. 😂 its Magellan's fault 😂😂😂 anyway we filipinos usually Speak FILIPINO but we do speak English. some of our words are could "Hiram na salita" hiram means (Borrow)😂 and Those words have no Filipino translation like BAG .
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@Cicade
there are three continents in the Philippines
Luzon Visayas and Mindanao
language in Luzon:
Ilocano
Tagalog
in Visayas:
Cebuano
Visaya
in Mindanao
I don't know hehehe
I hope this helps you
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@FionaRhiana Correction!
Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are not continents. They are the three Philippine island groups. Asia is a continent where the Philippines is a part of.
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we have a lot of languages but me as a Filipino only knows Tagalog, my mother tongue bisaya and a little bit of Ilonggo.
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