Filipino
Sign in to saveofficial language of the Philippines; standard and prescriptive form of Tagalog language; alternative name for Tagalog language, particularly its standardized form
AI overview
Filipino is the official language of the Philippines, based on the Tagalog language but in a standardized form used across the country. It matters because it serves as a common language for government, education, and public communication among Filipinos who speak many different regional languages.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Article
Filipino ( English: /ˌfɪlɪˈpiːnoʊ/ FIL-ih-PEE-noh; Wikang Filipino [ˈwikɐŋ filiˈpino]) 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 a de facto standardized form of the Tagalog language, as spoken and written in Metro Manila 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.