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Filipino language

This article is about the national language and one of the two official languages of the Philippines. For other languages, see Languages of the Philippines. For a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family, see Philippine languages. For the language from which Filipino evolved and developed, see Tagalog language.
For the people of the Philippines, see Filipinos.

Filipino
Standard Tagalog
Wikang Filipino
Pronunciation[ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]
Native toPhilippines
RegionAll regions of the Philippines, especially in Metro Manila, and in other urban centers in the archipelago
Native speakers
see Tagalog language
Early forms
Latin (Filipino alphabet)
Philippine Braille
Official status
Official language in
Philippines
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated byKomisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-2fil
ISO 639-3fil
Glottologfili1244
Linguasphere31-CKA-aa
  Countries with more than 500,000 speakers
  Countries with between 100,000–500,000 speakers
  Countries where it is spoken by minor communities
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Filipino (English: /ˌfɪlɪˈpiːnoʊ/ , FIH-lih-PEE-noh;[1] Wikang Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family. It is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the Philippines, lingua franca (Karaniwang wika), and one of the two official languages (Wikang opisyal/Opisyal na wika) of the country, with English.[2] It is a standardized variety of the native language Tagalog,[3] spoken and written in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region, and in other urban centers of the archipelago.[4] The 1987 Constitution mandates that Filipino be further enriched and developed by the other languages of the Philippines.[5]

Filipino, like other Austronesian languages, commonly uses verb-subject-object order, but can also use subject-verb-object order. Filipino follows the trigger system of morphosyntactic alignment that is also common among Austronesian languages. It has head-initial directionality. It is an agglutinative language but can also display inflection. It is not a tonal language and can be considered a pitch-accent language and a syllable-timed language. It has nine basic parts of speech.

  1. ^ "English pronunciation of Filipino".
  2. ^ Constitution of the Philippines 1987, Article XIV, Sections 6 and 7
  3. ^ Nolasco, Ricardo Ma. (August 24, 2007). "Filipino and Tagalog, Not So Simple". Santiago Villafania. Archived from the original on May 22, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  4. ^ Pineda, Ponciano B.P.; Cubar, Ernesto H.; Buenaobra, Nita P.; Gonzalez, Andrew B.; Hornedo, Florentino H.; Sarile, Angela P.; Sibayan, Bonifacio P. (May 13, 1992). "Resolusyon Blg 92-1" [Resolution No. 92-1]. Commission on the Filipino Language (in Tagalog). Retrieved May 22, 2014. Ito ay ang katutubong wika, pasalita at pasulat, sa Metro Manila, ang Pambansang Punong Rehiyon, at sa iba pang sentrong urban sa arkipelago, na ginagamit bilang.
  5. ^ Commission on the Filipino Language Act 1991, Section 2

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