Top 25 Most Spoken Languages in the World 2024

English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi stand out as the world’s most spoken languages, with approximately 1.5 billion, 1.1 billion, and 610 million speakers worldwide. These languages are not only widely spoken but are also experiencing rapid growth.

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Published on 12/03/2024 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, People
Tags: Chinese, English, English language, Tagalog, language

7 Mistakes Tourists to the PH Make on Vacation

The Philippines is one of Asia's top tourist destinations. In 2019, some 8.3 million people visited the country. It's known for its gorgeous natural landscape including white-sand beaches in Boracay, the Chocolate Hills in Bohol, and some of the best dive sites in the world in Palawan. These are just a few of the reasons why so many Americans have chosen to settle down here.

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Published on 21/06/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Culture, Opinion, Travel
Tags: Manila, language

Study Reveals How Countries Interpret Dog, Cat Sounds

Language can be tricky but also interesting because of the differences and similarities many share around the world — now picture that for our favorite furry friends. Humans interpret animal sounds based on one's native language, even if we're hearing the same thing.

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Published on 07/03/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Culture, Leisure
Tags: language, pets

Why the F in ‘Filipino’ and How Did It Get There?

"Purist” Tagalog speakers, the superannuated academic, and sometimes the man on the street, will all insist that the letter F does not exist in the Tagalog language. One can never hear it, they say, in everyday speech. On the other hand, the same speakers whose parents were more or less educated in the old Hispanized orthography, or later in American English, do in fact use the letter F in pronouncing surnames like Fernandez or first names like Fidel.

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Published on 08/08/2019 by puertoparrot
Categories: Education, Humor
Tags: Filipino, Tagalog, language

Isnag Language

Isnag (also called Isneg) is a language spoken by around 40,000 Isnag people of Apayao Province in the Cordillera Administrative Region in the northern Philippines. Around 85% of Isnag are capable of reading the Isnag language.[citation needed] Many Isnag speakers also speak Ilocano.

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Apayao, Cordillera, language

Davaoeño

Chavacano is a Spanish-based creole language and known in linguistics as Philippine Creole Spanish. Spaniards who settled in the Philippines intermingled with the natives and even married Filipinas. To be able to communicate, both sides had to learn each other’s languages.

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Davao, creole, language

Cotabateño

Chavacano is a Spanish-based creole language and known in linguistics as Philippine Creole Spanish. Spaniards who settled in the Philippines intermingled with the natives and even married Filipinas. To be able to communicate, both sides had to learn each other’s languages. To express themselves, the natives mixed Spanish with their particular language — Tagalog in Cavite, Ternate, and Manila; and Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Moro languages in Cotabato, Davao, and Zamboanga.

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: creole, language

Caviteño

Chavacano is a Spanish-based creole language and known in linguistics as Philippine Creole Spanish. Initially, and as a means to express themselves, native speakers mixed Spanish with their respective dialect: Tagalog in Cavite, Ternate, and Manila; Cebuano, Hiligaynon and Moro languages in Cotobato, Davao, and Zamboanga.

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Cavite, creole, language

Caluyanon

The speakers of this language are found on the Caluya Islands of Antique Province in the Western Visayas Region. Many Caluyanon speakers use Hiligaynon as their second language.

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Hiligaynon, language

Bolinao

The second most widely spoken Sambalic language in Pangasinan (after Sambal), Bolinao is used in the town of the same name and Anda, an island-municipality situated at the entrance of Lingayen Gulf.

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Published on 01/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Bolinao, Sambal, language

Honoring Antique's Kinaray-A Culture and Language

San Jose – The province of Antique located in the Western Visayas Region is home to the Kinaray-a or Karay-a people. It is one of the five provinces comprising Region VI. Antique is bounded by the rugged central mountains of Panay, as well as the provinces of Capiz on the east, Aklan in the northeast, Iloilo in the southeast, and finally, the Sulu Sea on the west. Antique can be reached via land travel from Iloilo or Aklan, where Boracay Island, the Philippines' most famous beach destination...

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Published on 25/02/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Culture
Tags: Kinaray-a, culture, language

What Languages Are Spoken in the Philippines?

The language of the Philippines was originally written in the Baybayin script, which in turn is similar to those used in Java, Bali and Sumatra. (For those not so familiar with these languages, they date back to the Brahmi inscriptions in India in the third century BC). Today, the Latin alphabet has replaced the previous one and is the means by which we write Tagalog, the common name for the language of the Philippines, although not exactly the same since Filipino is a variant of Tagalog.

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Published on 09/01/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Culture, Education
Tags: Baybayin, English language, Tagalog, language

Hiligaynon Literature

Hiligaynon is the lingua franca of the West Visayas in Central Philippines. Politically labeled Region 6, West Visayas is composed of the provinces of Iloilo, Capiz, Antique and Aklan on the island of Panay; Negros Occidental, the western half of the island of Negros; and the new island-province of Guimaras which used to be a sub-province of Iloilo.

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Published on 25/12/2017 by puertoparrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Hiligaynon, Literature, language

Bikol Literature in the Philippines

Bikol is the language of almost 5 million people in the provinces of Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Masbate and Sorsogon that constitute the Bikol Region. The Bikol people have a writing tradition with roots in its ancient folkways. Still extant are charm verses exploiting the possibilities of words in folk poems and narratives with mythical content, and bound with early historical fragments which form part of the people’s lives.

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Published on 25/12/2017 by puertoparrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Education
Tags: Bicol, Literature, language