Language Policy and Language-in-Education Policy in the Philippines
1981; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 2; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0267190500000246
ISSN1471-6356
Autores Tópico(s)Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
ResumoThe major local (Austronesian) languages of the Philippines are Cebuano, Tagalog (the basis of pilipino), Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicol, Waray (Samber-Leyte), Kapampangan, and Pangasinan (rank ordered according to the number of first-language speakers). Earlier, any language which had at least 500,000 first-language speakers was considered a major language; with the growth in population, this number has been pushed to 1,000,000. All but Pangasinan, which has about 950,000 first-language speakers, have over a million first-language speakers based on the 1975 census. (A census was taken in 1980 and preliminary reports have been released; however, a breakdown according to language speakers is not yet available.)
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