Filipino language
| Filipino | |
|---|---|
| Standard Tagalog | |
| Wikang Filipino | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈwikɐŋ filiˈpino] |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | All regions of the Philippines, especially in Metro Manila, and in other urban centers in the archipelago |
Native speakers | L1: 29 million (2010) L2: 54 million (2020) Total: 83 million |
Early forms | |
| Latin (Filipino alphabet) Philippine Braille | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Philippines |
| Regulated by | Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | fil |
| ISO 639-3 | fil |
| Glottolog | fili1244 |
| Linguasphere | 31-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 | |
Filipino (English: /ˌfɪlɪˈpiːnoʊ/ ⓘ FIL-ih-PEE-noh; Wikang Filipino [ˈwikɐŋ filiˈpino]) (also known as Standard Tagalog) is the national language of the Philippines, the main lingua franca, and one of the two official languages of the country, along with English. It is a de facto standardized form of the Tagalog language, as spoken and written in Metro Manila and in other urban centers of the archipelago. The 1987 Constitution mandates that Filipino be further enriched and developed by the other languages of the Philippines.
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 common among Philippine 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.