{"id":3861,"date":"2016-12-28T13:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T05:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2021-07-08T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T02:36:01","slug":"expats-guide-to-philippine-dialects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2016\/12\/28\/expats-guide-to-philippine-dialects\/","title":{"rendered":"Expats\u2019 Guide to Philippine Dialects"},"content":{"rendered":"

With 7,641 islands in the Philippines, grouped into three major islands\u2014Luzon, Visayas & Mindanao, different dialects flourished in specific regions and was used and spoken by Filipinos. To give you an overview of the languages used in the Philippines aside from Tagalog and English, check out this brief background to Philippine Dialects:<\/p>\n

In a study entitled \u201cMany Voices, One Nation:\u00a0The Philippine Languages and Dialects\u201d\u00a0published by the Philippine Statistics Authority<\/a>, the dialects generally spoken in the Philippines next to Tagalog are: Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Maguindano, Tausug, Maranao, Karay-a, Kankanai, Akeanon, Capize\u00f1o, Surigaonon, Masbate\u00f1o, Zamboange\u00f1o-Chavacano,Ibanag, and Manobo.<\/p>\n

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Image grabbed from nap.psa.gov.ph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The California State University Northridge<\/a> also published \u201cMajor Languages in the Philippines\u201d and listed down Bikol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Kapamkampangan, Pangasinan, Tagalog, and Waray.<\/p>\n

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Image grabbed from csun.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In Luzon, the dialects generally spoken are Tagalog, Ilocano, and Bikol based on the data from nap.psa.gov.ph<\/a>. \u00a0In Visayas, Hiligaynon, Ilonggo, Cebuano, and Waray are the most used dialects, while in Mindanao, the people commonly speak Bisaya, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Ilonggo.<\/p>\n

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Source: Philippine Statistics Authority<\/a>, California State University Northridge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To give you an overview of the languages used in the Philippines aside from Tagalog and English, check out this guide to Philippine Dialects:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730],"tags":[369,360,370,357,359,374,358,368,362,367,376,364,375,366,372,378,363,356,371,365,377,361,373],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-history","tag-akeanon","tag-bikol","tag-capizeno","tag-cebuano","tag-hiligaynon","tag-ibanag","tag-ilocano","tag-kankanai","tag-kapampangan","tag-karay-a","tag-luzon","tag-maguindano","tag-manobo","tag-maranao","tag-masbateno","tag-mindanao","tag-pangasinan","tag-philippine-dialects","tag-surigaonon","tag-tausug","tag-visayas","tag-waray","tag-zamboangeno-chavacano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/9378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}