Filipino (English: /ËŒfɪlɪˈpiË noÊŠ/ (listen); Wikang Filipino
[wɪˈkÉ Å‹ ËŒfiË liˈpiË no]), also known as Pilipino, is the
national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the
Philippines. Filipino is also designated, along with English, as an
official language of the country. It is a standardized variety of the
Tagalog language, an Austronesian regional language that is widely
spoken in the Philippines. As of 2007, Tagalog is the first language
of 28 million people,[citation needed] or about one-third of the
Philippine population, while 45 million speak Tagalog as their second
language. Tagalog is among the 185 languages of the Philippines
identified in the Ethnologue. Officially, Filipino is defined by the
Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino in
Filipino or simply KWF) as "the native dialect, spoken and written, in
Metro Manila, the National Capital Region, and in other urban centers
of the archipelago."Filipino is officially taken to be a pluricentric
language, as it is further enriched and developed by the other
existing Philippine languages according to the mandate of the 1987
Constitution. Indeed, there have been observed "emerging varieties of
Filipino which deviate from the grammatical properties of Tagalog" in
Cebu, Davao City, and Iloilo which together with Metro Manila form the
four largest metropolitan areas in the Philippines.The Philippines is
a multilingual state with more than 175 living languages originating
and spoken by various ethno-linguistic groups. There was no one single
common language across every cultural group in the Philippine
archipelago when the Spanish arrived in the 16th century. Filipino language Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter