English is the only official language of Philippines?

Question

I'm from Brazil

Answer 1

More than 170 languages are spoken in the country, almost all of them belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian language group of the Austronesian language family. According to the 1987 Constitution, Filipino, heavily based on Tagalog, and English are both the official languages. The twelve major regional languages are the auxiliary official languages of their respective regions, each with over one million speakers: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Waray-Waray, Bikol, Kapampangan, Pangasinan. Kinaray-a, Maranao, Maguindanao and Tausug. English is used by some Filipinos as their first language, particularly those belonging to the upper echelons of society.

The Lan-nang-oe variant of Min Nan Chinese dialect is widely spoken by the country's Chinese minority

The use of Spanish in the Philippines was the original official language of the country for more than three centuries, but was used mainly by the educated illustrados (including José Rizal) or self taught natives and the Spanish authorities. Spanish was the language of Philippine Revolution, and the 1899 Malolos Constitution proclaimed it as the official language. Following the American occupation of the Philippines, its use declined, especially after 1940. Currently, only a few Spanish Mestizo families speak it as their first language, though many others use it together with Tagalog and English.

Both Spanish and Arabic are used as auxiliary languages in the Philippines. The use of Arabic is prevalent among the Filipino Muslims. It is taught in madrasah (Muslim) schools.

Answer 2

I agree that Malaysia is richer than Philippines is not because of the official language, instead, the main reason is due to political stability. Philippines is a country of freedom, which used to be strongly influenced by US on this area. It may be a direct or indirect cause for the numerous coup and regular protest going on in the country, which makes the political environment extremely fragile. Under such environment, even that the people brought in the best candidate as the president into place, he/she could do very little by now playing the "rule of the game", which power is associated with corrupted (and then personal wealth). I am not saying that Malaysia has a very good political environment (and far from saying that it is corruption-free), but what I was trying to say is that it is relatively stable here - and the country could grow when the resource is adequate (or in better case, more than adequote) to feed the greed from corruption.

Answer 3

Philippine's official language is Tagalog, which are spoken throughout the whole nation and have several dialects, including dialects that are affected with English accent, and dialects that are used in common talk, like not talking in full sentence.

Answer 4

The Philippines has two official languages - Filipino (based on Tagalog) and English. In addition, there are eight major dialects - Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinan.

Answer 5

The official language in the Philippines is TAGALOG also known as the "Filipino" language.

Answer 6

I believe it's Filipino and English. Spanish and Arabic used to be official languages as well until it was removed during the 80's. A lot of Filipinos speak spanish and arabic, though.

Answer 7

the main language of the Philippines is Tagalog but English is our third or second language, there are other provincial languages like waray-waray, bisaya, and etc.

Answer 8

no,it's filipino or tagalog. but we speak good english,(this is not bragging), most if not many of us do.

Answer 9

No Tagalog.

Answer 10

Could have fooled me. I thought it was German.