Filipino language
| Filipino | |
|---|---|
| Standard Tagalog | |
| Wikang Filipino | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞] |
| 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 Baybayin (developing) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Philippines |
Recognised minority language in | |
| 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: /ˌfɪləˈpiːnoʊ/ ⓘ FIL-ə-PEE-noh; Wikang Filipino, [ˈwikɐŋ filiˈpino̞]) 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 only a de facto and not a de jure standardized form of the Tagalog language, as spoken and written in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region, 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.