Filipino (language)

Filipino
Wikang Filipino
Pronunciation	[wɪ'kɐŋ ˌfiːliˈpiːno]
Native to	Philippines
Native speakers	(see Tagalog) L2: 45 million (2013) Total: 70+ million
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Tagalog Filipino
Writing system	Latin (Filipino alphabet) Philippine Braille
Official status
Official language in	Philippines
Regulated by	Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`fil`
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	`fili1244`
Linguasphere	`31-CKA-aa`
Countries with more than 500,000–1,000,000 speakers Countries with more than 100,000 speakers Countries where it is spoken by minor communities
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Filipino /ˌfɪlɪˈpiːnoʊ/ (Wikang Filipino [wɪ'kɐŋ ˌfiːliˈpiːno]), in this usage, refers to 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 the standard register 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, or about one-third of the Philippine population, while 45 million speak Filipino as their second language. Filipino 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 language, spoken and written, in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region, and in other urban centers of the archipelago."