how many dialects do philippines have?
2006-10-20 00:05:45 · 3 answers · asked by rheya 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The number of languages listed for Philippines is 175. Of those, 171 are living languages and 4 are extinct.
A complete list at: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Philippines
2006-10-20 00:08:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
more or less 80.search the web.tagalog is the national language also called philippino.this language has words diffused or integrated in every dialect of the achipelago and vice versa.the origin according to the studies done.it belong to austropolinesian group but i noticed greek,hebrew,old sanskrit,arab,chinese etc are incorporated already in the philippino language unnoticed because of the changes in the begining and ending of the words.
2006-10-20 18:04:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
exact? not sure... but maybe around 170+...
because there's always the mix of other dialects...
hay ewan..
2006-10-20 00:09:54 · answer #3 · answered by mystified 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋