FIL ISO 639-3
Filipino
Filipino Autonym
A language of Philippines
- ISO 639
- fil
- Alternate Names
- Pilipino, Wikang Filipino
- Autonym
- Filipino
- Population
- 54,000,000 (2020), L2 users.
- Location:
- Widespread.
- Language Status
- 1 (National). Statutory national language (1987, Constitution, Article 14(6)), not used in all official domains.
- Classification
- Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Central Philippine, Central Philippine, Tagalog
- Language Use
- Despite being constitutionally-mandated as the Philippine national language, Filipino is only used as a tertiary language in the Philippine public sphere (Demetrio and Liwanag 2014).
- Language Development
- Taught in primary and secondary schools. Literature. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible: 1905.
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Filipino
- Writing
- Latin script [Latn]. Tagalog script [Tglg], no longer in use.
- Other Comments
- Primarily based on Tagalog [tgl] with some terminology imported from other regional languages. Christian.
Also Spoken in
Map
Location: Widespread.
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