It is spoken by 2. The Pangasinan language is native to an area in the northwest of the Philippines, where it has 2. It has a number of close relatives in linguistic terms, including Ibaloi, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Hawaiian and Malagasy.
Speakers account for 2. Maranao is spoken on the island of Mindanao in the southern part of the Philippines. It has a distinctive downstep accent, which differentiates it from other Danao languages.
As well as being spoken in the Philippines, it is spoken in Malaysia. Maranao speakers number more than 2. Tausug is spoken throughout the Sulu Archipelago in the southern area of the Philippines.
Around 1. Tausug is also spoken in Malaysia. Several other Filipino languages have a million or more first language speakers, including Maguindanao 1. Several languages spoken in the Philippines have been classified as endangered and several more have already become extinct. All of these languages are Negrito languages, which are some of the oldest languages to be found in the Philippines.
Or, to be precise, not to be found there anymore, in the case of those that are now extinct. Before we take a quick look at these languages, it is worth mentioning that efforts are underway to preserve those that are in danger of being lost.
Specifically, there has been some activity around encouraging the use of ethnic mother languages in homes and schools before the teaching of Filipino and immigrant languages such as English. UNESCO has classified both the Central Cagayan Agta language and the Dupaninan Agta language as vulnerable, with speaker numbers having dwindled to just in the case of the former and 1, for the latter.
Several languages in the Philippines are classified as endangered. I've already covered English and Spanish in some detail above, so I won't talk further about those here. However, they aren't the only immigrant languages spoken in the Philippines. Several foreign tongues are used there and so warrant a quick mention. Arabic has been spoken in the Philippines for centuries and used to be spoken as a lingua franca by Muslim traders in the Malay Archipelago.
Today, Arabic shares equal status with Spanish in the Philippines, in that the Constitution mandates that it should be promoted on an optional and voluntary basis. Arabic is used mainly in the southern part of the Philippines, for religious activities and some educational purposes. It is only rarely used in daily conversation. Filipinos with Chinese ancestry have spoken multiple Chinese languages for generations. The most commonly used of these is Hokkien Chinese.
Many also speak other native Filipino languages. Some speakers code switch or code mix between English and Tagalog, referred to as speaking Taglish, Englog or Bislish.
When Hokkien is also thrown into the mix, the code-switching is referred to as speaking Hokaglish. Japanese has been spoken in the Philippines since the 11th century CE and is still spoken there by a small community today. With a significant Japanese business community present in Metro Manila, there is even a school for Japanese there. The Philippines is home to a small number of Korean speakers, including Korean expats and those born in the Philippines with Korean ancestry.
Old Malay is historically important to language development in the Philippines, as it was previously used as a lingua franca throughout the archipelago. Today, Malay is spoken daily by Malaysians and Indonesians who live in, and do business with, the Philippines.
Along the southern border, Malay is also spoken as a second language by some of the Tausug, Sama-Bajau and Yakan peoples. I hope you've enjoyed this Filipino language report. Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a quarter of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by the majority. Its standardized form, officially named Filipino, is the national language and one of two official languages of the Philippines, the other being English.
It is related to other Philippine languages, such as the Bikol languages, Ilokano, the Visayan languages, and Kapampangan, and more distantly to other Austronesian languages, such as the Formosan languages, Indonesian, Hawaiian, and Malagasy.
Very little is known about the ancient history of the language. Linguists such as Dr. David Zorc and Dr. The alternative names of Tagalog are Filipino, Pilipino. German Name for Tagalog: Tagalog. In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Tagalog on Tagalog Language Codes. A softUsvista venture! Most Difficult Languages -. How many people speak Tagalog?
English speakin.. Croatian speaki.. Chinese speakin.. Most Difficult Languages » More. More More Most Difficult The origins of this language date back to more than 1, years ago. Interestingly, Tagalog has changed throughout the years as various countries have influenced the Philippines. Over times of various occupations, Tagalog incorporated words, phrases and pronunciations of other languages.
Some Filipinos refer to the combination of Tagalog and English as Taglish. Most Filipinos still speak Tagalog, though many of the younger generations also learn other Filipino dialects as well. Tagalog is the third most spoken non-English language in the United States. The majority of Tagalog speakers live in California, Nevada and Washington.
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