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I started the topic wanting to know how many dialects the Philippines has, however the question should be: How many languages does the PH have? I ended up reading it was 120 to 187 languages spoken in the Philippines (170 was a number I saw as well). PS: I will try to schedule the video’s earlier (more in line with PH time).

It's a fact for Filipinos from a non-Tagalog speaking area, place, city, town or municipality, province, or region who natively speaks a non-Tagalog language or who speaks a non-Tagalog language and or dialect to later learn, use, understand, comprehend, write, read, and speak the two official spoken languages of the Philippines (de jure the English language or de facto the Philippine English dialect or variety of the English language, and Filipino language - the national language of the Philippines). The Filipino national language is said to be, widely known, and accordingly a Tagalog-based language. It is pluricentric, inclusive, and the national language of the Philippines. It has a long history from being the Tagalog regional language, to the past Pilipino national language, then to the modern Filipino national language. It is also accordingly the most prestigious, the standardized, and the most well-known, well-understood, widely-known and widely-used, widely-spoken, widely-understood, and most popular and common form, variety, or dialect of the Tagalog regional language throughout the Philippines. It is accordingly the variety, form, or dialect of the Tagalog language that is used and spoken in Metro Manila and in other urban centers and areas of the Philippines, where native speakers of various and different languages of the Philippines meet, live, work, study, etc. Linguistically and gramatically, the modern Filipino national language and the modern Tagalog regional language don't have differences at all, and are the same language, of the same language, two forms or varities of the same language, two dialects of the same language, or just to names or terms called and referred to the same language in different contexts and uses. Their only differences are when it comes to their names (one is named Tagalog and one is Filipino), their statuses (Tagalog is regional and Filipino is national), context (Tagalog is local and regional and used to differentiate it from other languages spoken and used in the Philippines, and Filipino is national, standardized, nationally recognized, nationally used, and used in local, regional, national, and international settings and contexts to refer and name the national language and lingua franca of the Philippines), and in terms of the amount or quantity, and in terms of the variety or diversity of the lexicons, terms or terminologies, words, jargons, slangs, expressions, synonymous and antonymous words, and or vocabulary words they each have, which pertains to their level of inclusivity (Tagalog contains and uses less lexicons, words, synonymous and antonymous words, terms or terminologies, vocabulary words, slangs, jargons, and expressions from the other languages and dialects of the Philippines and from foreign languages, while Filipino contains and uses more, and also Tagalog contains and uses more regional, local, provincial, and "deeper or older" and "archaic or classical" Tagalog terms or terminologies, words, lexicons, synonymous and antonymous words, vocabulary words, slangs, jargons, and expressions that are used in, within, throughout, and around the Tagalog-speaking or majority Tagalog-speaking areas and places of the Philippines, while Filipino contains and uses less of these), next is their area (Tagalog is spoken in the Tagalog-speaking and or majority Tagalog-speaking areas and places of the Philippines which includes the National Capital Region (Metropolitan Manila or Metro Manila), Calabarzon Region or Region IV-A (Southern Tagalog Region), some places or areas, towns or municipalities, and provinces in Central Luzon Region or Region III, in Mimaropa Region or Region IV-B (Southwestern Tagalog Region), in some places or areas, cities, and towns or municipalities in the provinces of Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and in some places or areas, cities, and towns or municipalities in Central Mindanao area (the eastern half or mainland Mindanao parts, places, or areas of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of/in Muslim Mindanao , plus some of its neighboring areas, places, and towns or municipalities. On the other hand, Filipino is spoken throughout the whole country and outiside the Philippines). Their other differences are Tagalog is a native, indigenous, and ethnic language, and is the first language of a majority of Filipinos, especially the people of the Tagalog ethnic group or Tagalog ethnolinguistic group, while Filipino is technically not an indigenous, native, or ethnic language, a language based or derived from Tagalog, a form, variant, variety, or dialect of Tagalog, a version or another version of Tagalog, a standardized form, version, variety, variant, or dialect of Tagalog, and developed, originated, and or evolved from Tagalog. The main differences between Tagalog and Filipino is more in and limited within the senses, contexts, and settings that are political, academic, educational, legal, formal, and constitutional, but in other else they are mostly interchangeable.

Im proud bisaya, proud filipino!

It's past 12 midnight here in the Philippines but since I'm notified, I won't mind spending a few minutes watching you, two! 🥰🥰🥰

Many Filipinos especially the young interspersed their dialects with english and tagalog

Filipino/Tagalog is being taught in school from grade school onwards wherever in the Philippines you are together with English subject.

I can speak Kinaray-a (my mother tongue and not featured in the video), Hiligaynon, Tagalog/Filipino, English, Bisaya/Cebuano myself so a lot of people in the country are multilinguals in nature 😉

They said that the Ilongo or Hiligaynon dialect is the sweetest to hear….” Malambing ” as you say it in Tagalog….nice to know that your mother is Ilocana…my parents are both Ilocanos…thank you so much for sharing this RV….I’m watching from Florida 🇺🇸

Philippines has 170 plus local language some r not registered

Nice topic.. Keep it up..

Chavacano is not only spoken in Zamboanga but also in Cavite City (where i came from) and in Ternate, Cavite. I spoke Chavacano growing up... Arriva Karsten.... Para y Dios y Patria meaning ( Fly High Karsten for the Lord and for the Country)

I spoke 9 Dialect hiligaynon,visaya, tagalog,Maranao,waray,and 4 other indigenous spoken.

I speak Bisaya, Tagalog, English, Spanish (coz my grandfather is spanish) and French coz my husband is french and I'm living now in Paris, France.

hey stefan, some of filipino languages came from indonesia , in ilocano dialect northern philippines

I'm from panay Aklan Visayas, the dealict we speak there is Akeanon. example "maayad ayad nga hapon kinyo tanan.".

I'm from Ilocos Sur, we're frm Umingan, Gamueta descendants of my mothers side...and I'm also a Waray of my fathers side frm Cerdena, Mabini clan in Samar☺️ my main dialect which i can speak so well is of course Ilocano coz i grew up in Ilocos, and Tagalog since were now living in Quezon City, but I can also speak and understand English very well... little bit of Spanish. My husband is frm Antique, and their dialect is Kinaray-A, and we have a lot of friends frm diffirent parts of Visaya who speaks Ilonggo, Cebuano and Chavacano...it's not that hard to learn this dialects...specially when you're into business and you mingle with people everyday...in fact even in Ilocos, their are also diffirent types of ilocano dialects particularly in the mountainous places like in Conception near Tirad Pass...it is ilocano but there are some diffrent words not spoken by people in the lowlands...even in the Mountain provinces in Bagiou, they are also known as iloconos but they speak differently frm the people in Ilocos Region. haha😄...what in the world is this! even here in the Philippines, a small Island country but we literally have so many languages...God bless Pinoy Roots🙏 its nice watching your video.♥️♥️♥️

Me I can speak waray it's my language,tagalog,english,bicolano,and also understand kapampangan and a little bit of ilocano,,coz been working in this places

Correction, the language is Pangasinan and not Pangasinense. Pangasinense are the people living in Pangasinan. Language is called Pangasinan Language or simply Pangasinan.

Chavacano is composed of 70% Spanish words 30% others...

Hiligaynon speakers in mindanao are migrants from the island of panay where hiligaynon originated.

Just a clarification: language is not equal to dialect. A language can be in various dialects but not the other way around. If the question is “how many dialects?”, then it is far more than how many languages. As can be seen, Cebuano covers mostly parts of Visayas and Mindanao. Beacuse of this, various Cebuano dialects are spoken which are mutually intelligible. The difference can be found in the vocabulary or choice of words. Also, as a cebuano speaker, I somehow understand languages near the area such as Hiligaynon and Waray because of the vocabulary but not the languages in Luzon(except ofcourse Tagalog hahaha).

most in luzon dialect have some similarities in malay language. but most people in visayas and mindanao speak bisaya

Have you been to Baguio City. From Bataan in Luzon, we pass by ALCALA which is a town in Panagasinan (Ilocanos) Anout Baguio, we feel the Winter breeze of HK from China. I just love following you karsten & Stefan.

Tagalog now is heavily influenced with English language. And there’s tagalog deep words that people doesn’t use anymore like the word Paminggalan which means kitchen. Instead we use the word kusina. And it’s heavily infused with English. Like “ako ang magdadrive” (I’ll drive”) . Yun lang.

Each of the languages spoken and used in the Philippines (except for foreign languages) has two or more language varieties called dialects. The exact or accurate count of how many dialects are spoken and used within one or a single language in the Philippines is also hard or difficult to exactly and accurately determine and identify. It will depend on how would you linguistically differentiate a language and a dialect from one another, or if a certain type of human speech is just a far or distant dialect (linguistically speaking) but is still belonging to as a dialect of a language, or if it is a whole, other, or another language that is jusy so similar and closely related to another language or other languages. Dialects of each of the languages of the Philippines can vary from as small as village to village, community to community, neighborhood to neighborhood, town to another closer town or municipality to another closer municipality, and city to another closer city. These can also vary as large as from a town to another distant town or municipality to another distant municipality, city to another distant city, province to another neighboring or distant province, or region to another neighboring or distant region. Dialects in the Philippines also do exist in a dialectal or dialect continuum in some areas of the Philippines, which means that varied or different dialects of a language that are spoken and used in closer or neighboring places or areas are more closely related and similar compared to dialects that are spoken and used in distant or far places or areas.

I spoke cebuano bec i am from visayas but it's combine to tagalog and English If I spoken you feel confused. 😅😊Some language in philippines people's they are deep words doesn't used. 😉 I can't wait to your next episode video💕l 😆😆

I always using Tagalog, English, ilocano and a little bit ibanag👍👍👍👍

The speakers of Tagalog language are the speakers of the national language Filipino.

I think it never is a problem to filipinos for knowing the English language, and even proud that foreigners will not have a hard time communicating with us, and that's even one of the important points for enticing foreigners to come to the country, the more tourists means a bigger revenue which certainly would give a boast to the country's coffers. Patriotism wouldn't take a back just because English words now are being used in our daily normal conversations. We even take pride in being one of the largest speaking countries in the world. We find more positivity than negativity for this matter.

How about do a comparison of Filipino and Bahasa language video together since Stefan is a part Indonesian.

Besides Tagalog, i can also speak in Bisaya and Bikolano languages and can understand a little of Ilokano and Chavacano languages.

I speak Tagalog, Pangasinan and Ilocano ❤️👋

"Buenas/Buenos dias !" is how you say "Good day/morning !" in my native or first language, Chavacano. It is a Spanish-based creole language in the Philippines. I am from Zamboanga City, and I speak or use the variant, variety, or dialect of Chavacano called the Zamboangueño, Zamboangueño Chavacano, Chavacano de Zamboanga, or simply as Chavacano with a "v", which is the most widely known, most widely used, and most widely spoken form, variety, variant, or dialect of Chavacano in the Philippines. The other living variants, varieties, forms, or dialects of Chavacano in the Philippines are from Ternate (town/municipality) called Ternateño/Ternateño Chabacano/Chabacano de Ternate/Bahra/Lenguaje de Bahra, and from Cavite City called Caviteño/Caviteño Chabacano/Chabacano de Cavite/Lenguaje de Nisos. There are other three more variants, varieties, forms, or dialects of Chavacano, of which one is long extinct or dead, and two are recently extinct or dead, or maybe are just still badly endangered. The Chavacano variety, variant, form, or dialect of Zamboanga City is also spoken by some and understood in varying degrees or levels in the neighboring provinces of Western Mindanao area such as Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, Sulu, and Tawi-tawi, especially in the mainland of Basilan province. It is also spoken by some and understood in varying degrees or levels in the cities of Isabela and Lamitan in Basilan province, and by some few in other cities like Dipolog, Dapitan, and Pagadian. It is also spoken and understood in varying degrees or levels by some Filipinos in the northeastern and eastern parts of Sabah in Malaysia. The variety, variant, form, or dialect of Chavacano of and originated from Zamboanga City has a grammar similar to Filipino/Tagalog, Cebuano/Bisaya, and Hiligaynon/Ilonggo, while its words, lexicons, vocabularies, etc. are a mixture or blend of about 70-90% Spanish (mainly a mix or blend of Castilian, Andalusian, and Mexican Spanish) and the rest are of or from Tausug/Bahasa Sug, Cebuano/Bisaya, Hiligaynon/Ilonggo, Filipino/Tagalog, Nahuatl (a native language of Mexico), English, and other foreign languages like French, Italian, Portuguese, Malay/Bahasa Melayu, German, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese dialects/languages.

Ilocano here and i can speak pangasinense and ofcourse tagalog

Yeah, there are really many languages spoken in the Philippines, but this is fewet compared to other countries like Indonesia or Papua New Guinea. The number of languages in the Philippines really depends on who studies and counts, as some will treat far or distant dialects (linguistically speaking) as another language or as totally a different language, while some will treat all dialects (whether the closely related ones and including those far or distant dialects, linguistically speaking) as belonging to a single language and as dialects of such language. That's why the exact number of languages spoken in the Philippines is hard or difficult to exactly and accurately determine and identify. The number varies from 120 to 187 or about more than 100 but less than 200 spoken languages, and it may or may not count and include foreign languages and dialects spoken and used in the country, and also extinct or dead languages and dialects of the Philippines.

Im a native chavacano in zamboanga city philippines the girl in video talk alot english than chavacano wee speack tagalog spanish

2 in Hiligaynon is duwa/ dua, same in Indonesian.

Pangasinan dialect was on your thumbnail.

I'm Filipino but I only 3 language to speak , English, Tagalog, and bisaya..

other dialect that I know is Batangueño from the province of Batangas which is similar to tagalog. actually its southern tagalog. tho there's a difference with the tone and pronunciation of the words. it uses the deeper term of the tagalog words. if you wanted to learn tagalog words from movies maybe you can search for movies in the 90's or older coz most of the movies we have now have their dialogues written in english.

I speak Hiligaynon but do you know what they say about Filipinos living outside the capital? We're Trilingual.

It is a mandatory requirement that all pupils and students in the Philippines must learn Filipino language in elementary and secondary schools. By the way, Filipino language was envisioned to be Tagalog-based AND enriched/infused with non-Tagalog PH Languages, NOT dialects. This is according to the 1987 PH Constitution. Sadly, the gov't. commission and agencies responsible to develop THE FILIPINO language failed do their jobs for various reasons. The Filipino language you know today is ESSENTIALLY 100% Tagalog. This is exacerbated by mass media in Radio, TV and advertising who simply use 100% Tagalog in nearly all of their programs and campaigns.

Sir,try to react chavacano song or language..

We have 175 dialect

She spoke ilokano and tagalog not supposed to have tagalog in between. By the way I'm from northern Luzon and I am belong to a Tinguian's tribe so I speak Itneg dialect like that of the Igorots in the Mountain province.

Kapampangan Here

#ImfromBicol dyos Marhay na aga Karsten ,Stefan 🙂means Good morning Karsten and Stefan 💓

I'm pangasinense, I can speak pangasinense and ilocano..

I think Filipinos in Larger cities struggle more in speaking either straight Filipino or straight English than those who use their dialects on daily basis.

Woah I can speak Bisaya/cebuano, Ilongo/ hiligaynon and tagalog Can Understand waray tho I can't speak the language skl😅

Gusto talaga ilong neto maliit na matangos ganern. Oh well yung ilong lang talga pinunta ko chour xD

I know 3 dialect bicol tagalog and half visaya.

ONLY BISAYA GANG WASSAP!!!

Antiqueno . . Is karay-a . . Thats us . .

Besides Cebuano or Bisaya...I can speak also TAGALOG, HILIGAYNON, SURIGAONON, MATIGSALUG, and ENGLISH ☺️ Surigaonon and Matigsalug are not mentioned in the video because that Dialect is not common. Surigaonon is spoken only in "Surigao" Northern part of Mindanao. And the Matigsalug is in the part of Davao del Sur. IT is also called Manobo or Lumad language.☺️

Only muslem language in Philippines is 13 kinds different except other place...

Bangsa Maharlika ng Haring Katagalugan (En Las Islas Filipinas) = Diversity

We’ve adopted another language: Korean! Hahaha 안녕하세요!!

Province of Antique are not spoken Hiligaynon we have our own language here and that is KINARAY-A. Only the City of Iloilo and Negros Occidental are speaking Hiligaynon but some parts of Iloilo they speak Kinaray-a. Aklan have their own language too and that is Akianon and it is deferent from Kinaray-a and Hiligaynon.

How come only ten million Filipinos speak ilokano ?more than half of luzon speak ilokano and some parts of mindanao also speak ilokano like cotabato,davao and many more

is it really called dialects tho?

Pure ilocana hr,

187 dialects aside from english

Ai ilocano ka gayam nag gwapo ka oh kayat ka makita taga anu ni mother mo idtoy Ilocandia

Lol why is the ilocano here they spoke have some tagalog? They should have looked for someone who do speak deep ilocano lol

I think those are not languages. Those are dialects.