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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Philippines > Filipino

Filipino

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3fil

Population  25,000,000 (2007).
Region  Widespread.
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Greater Central Philippine, Central Philippine, Tagalog
Language use  Official language. National language. Widely spoken as L2.
Language development  Taught in primary and secondary schools. Bible: 1905.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Based on Tagalog [tgl] with terms from other regional languages. Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Dangan, Florida V. 2006. "Contrastive analysis of true and false cognates in Filipino and Cuyonon."  Available online

Lorenzana, Angela E. . 2006. "Galit: the Filipino emotion word for ‘anger’."  Available online

McFarland, Curtis D. 2006. "A CAI program for teaching Filipino."  Available online

Tomales, Jesus S., compiler, and others. 1992. Gembabaʼ diksyunari (A short dictionary: Languages - Central Subanen, Cebuano Visayan, Filipino, English).

Vernacular Publications

Mga bitalang pangaldaw-kaldaw = Mga salitang pang-araw-araw = Everyday words and expressions. 2006.