Flashcards: Languages of the Philippines

Botolan is a Sambalic language spoken by 32,867 (SIL 2000) Sambal, primarily in the Zambal municipalities of Botolan and Cabangan in the Philippines.

Sambal or Sambali is a Sambalic language spoken primarily in the Zambal municipalities of Santa Cruz, Candelaria, Masinloc, Palauig, and Iba, and in the Pangasinense municipality of Infanta in the Philippines; speakers can also be found in Panitian, Quezon, Palawan and Barangay Mandaragat or Buncag of Puerto Princesa.

Paranan, also called Palanan, is a Philippine language belonging to the Northern Luzon languages.

Abellen, Abenlen, or Aburlin is a Sambalic language.

Bajaw is the language of the Bajaw 'Sea Gypsies' of Maritime Southeast Asia.

In linguistics, the Philippine languages are a 1991 proposal by Robert Blust that all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and a few languages of Palawan—form a subfamily of Austronesian languages.

Pandan Bikol, or Northern Catanduanes Bicolano, is one of the three groups of the Bikol languages.

The Karay-a language, Kinaray-a (Karay-a + the infix -in-) (ISO: krj), is an Austronesian regional language spoken by the Karay-a people, mainly in Antique in the Philippines as well as Iloilo and other provinces on the island of Panay.

Maguindanaon is an Austronesian language spoken by majority of the population of Maguindanao Province in the Philippines.

Masbateño or Minasbate is a Bicol-Visayan language spoken by more than 600,000 people, primarily in the province of Masbate in the Philippines.

Bontoc (Bontok) /bɒnˈtɒk/ (also called Finallig) is the native language of the indigenous Bontoc people of the Mountain Province, in the northern part of the Philippines.

Calamian Tagbanwa is spoken on Palawan Island in the Philippines.

American Sign Language (ASL) is the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of anglophone Canada.

Hakka /ˈhækə/, also rendered Kejia, is one of the major groups of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in southern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and around the world.

The Pampangan language or Kapampangan (Kulitan script: ) is one of the major languages of the Philippines.

Min or Miin (simplified Chinese: 闽语; traditional Chinese: 閩語; pinyin: Mǐn yǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân gú; BUC: Mìng ngṳ̄) is a broad group of Chinese varieties spoken by over 70 million people in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian as well as by migrants from this province in Guangdong (around Chaozhou-Swatou, or Chaoshan area, Leizhou peninsula and Part of Zhongshan), Hainan, three counties in southern Zhejiang, Zhoushan archipelago off Ningbo, some towns in Liyang, Jiangyin City in Jiangsu province, and Taiwan.

Sangirese, also known as Sangihé, Sangi, and Sangih, is an Austronesian language spoken on the islands linking northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, with Mindanao, Philippines by the Sangirese people.

The Subanon language (also Subanen and Subanun) is an Austronesian language belonging to the Mindanao languages.

Maranaoan (Maranao [ˈmәranaw] Mëranaw) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people in the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur in the Philippines, and in Sabah, Malaysia.

Atta is a dialect cluster spoken by the Aeta (Agta) Negritos of the northern Philippines.

Central Bikol, commonly called Bikol Naga, is the most-spoken language in the Bicol Region of southern Luzon, Philippines.

Chavacano or Chabacano [tʃaβaˈkano] is a Spanish-based creole language spoken in the Philippines.

Waray is the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, specific to the provinces of Samar, Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Biliran, and the north-east of Leyte Island (surrounding Tacloban).

The Pangasinan language or Salitan Pangasinan is one of the major languages of the Philippines.

The Inabaknon language, also known as Abaknon, Abaknon Sama, Capuleño, Kapul, or Capul Sinama, is an Austronesian language primarily spoken in the Island Municipality of Capul of Northern Samar, in the Eastern Visayas Region of the Philippines.

Cuyonon is a regional Visayan language spoken on the coast of Palawan, and the Cuyo Islands in the Philippines.

The Palawano languages are spoken on the island of Palawan in the province of Palawan in the Philippines.

Matigsalug (Matig-Salug Manobo) is a Manobo language of Mindanao in the Philippines.

Spanish was the official language of the Philippines from the beginning of Spanish rule in the late 16th century, through the conclusion of the Spanish–American War in 1898.

The Bolinao language or Binubolinao is a Central Luzon language spoken primarily in the municipalities of Bolinao and Anda, Pangasinan in the Philippines.

Karao (also spelled Karaw) is a language of northern Luzon, Philippines.

Tboli (pronunciation: /tbɔˈli/), also Tagabili or T'boli, is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, mainly in the province of South Cotabato but also in the neighboring provinces of Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani.

Caluyanon is a regional Western Visayan language spoken in the Caluya Islands in Antique in the Philippines.

Taglish, or Englog, is code-switching between English and Tagalog, the common languages of the Philippines, that developed in Manila.

Kalinga is a dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Igorot people, alongside Ilocano.

Arta is a nearly extinct Negrito language of the northern Philippines.

Philippine Sign Language, or Filipino Sign Language (FSL), is the national deaf sign language of the Philippines.

Hokkien /hɒˈkiɛn/ (from Chinese: 福建話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hok-kiàn-oē) is a group of mutually intelligible Min Nan Chinese dialects spoken throughout Southeastern China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and by many other overseas Chinese.

Philippine Fukien (Chinese: 咱儂話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lán-lâng-ōe; literally: "our people's language"), known as Hokkien in the Philippines, is the Hokkien dialect of Min Nan as spoken by about 98.

The Sama language, Sinama (Sama + the infix -in-; also known as Siyamal and Bajau), is the language of Sama people of the Sulu Archipelago and the Bajau of Sabah, Malaysia.

Philippine Spanish (Spanish: Español filipino, Castellano filipino) is a variant of standard Spanish spoken in the Philippines mostly by Spanish Filipinos.

Yakan is a Sama–Bajaw language of Basilan Island in the Philippines.

Philippine Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 菲律宾华语; traditional Chinese: 菲律賓華語; pinyin: Fēilùbīn Huáyǔ) is a variety of Standard Mandarin Chinese widely spoken by Chinese Filipinos.

Molbog is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines and Sabah, Malaysia.