Languages of Philippines
Ethnologue report for Philippines Page 1 of 36 Languages of Philippines See language map. [See also SIL publications on the languages of Philippines.] Republic of the Philippines. 86,241,697. National or official languages: Filipino, English. Literacy rate: 88% to 89%. Also includes Basque, French (698), Hindi (2,415), Indonesian (2,580), Japanese (2,899), Korean, Sindhi (20,000), Standard German (961), Vietnamese, Arabic. Information mainly from L. A. Reid 1971; SIL 1954–2003. Blind population: 1,144,500. Deaf population: 100,000 to 4,232,519 (1998). Deaf institutions: 17. The number of languages listed for Philippines is 175. Of those, 171 are living languages and 4 are extinct. Living languages Agta, Alabat [dul] 30 (2000 Wurm). East of Quezon Island Province, Luzon. Alternate names: Alabat Island Dumagat. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Northern Philippine, Northern Luzon, Northern Cordilleran, Dumagat, Southern Nearly extinct. More information. Agta, [abd] 150 (2000 Wurm). Luzon, Santa Elena Camarines and Labo, Camarines Norte. Alternate names: Norte Manide, Agiyan. Dialects: Lexical similarity 67% with Alabat Agta, 35% with Mt. Iriga Agta. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo- Polynesian, Northern Philippine, Northern Luzon, Northern Cordilleran, Dumagat, Southern More information. Agta, [dgc] 606 (2000 T. Headland). East coast of Casiguran Luzon, Aurora Province. Alternate names: Dumagat Casiguran Dumagat. Dialects: Intelligibility of Paranan 83%. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Northern Philippine, Northern Luzon, Northern Cordilleran, Dumagat, Northern More information. Agta, Central [agt] 779 (2000 WCD). Northeast Luzon. Cagayan Classification: Austronesian, Malayo- Polynesian, Northern Philippine, Northern Luzon, Northern Cordilleran, Dumagat, Northern More information. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=PH 2/28/2008 Ethnologue report for Philippines Page 2 of 36 Agta, [duo] 1,200 (1986 SIL).
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