filipino

Filipino (English: (listen); Wikang Filipino, [wɪˈkɐŋ ˌfiːliˈpiːno]), is an Austronesian language. It is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the Philippines, and one of the two official languages of the country, with English. It is a standardized variety of Tagalog based on the native dialect, spoken and written, in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region, and in other urban centers of the archipelago. It is further enriched and developed by the other languages of the Philippines as mandated by the 1987 Constitution. Filipino is only used as a tertiary language in the Philippine public sphere.Filipino, like other Austronesian languages, commonly uses verb-subject-object order, but can also use subject-verb-object order as well. Filipino follows the trigger system of morphosyntactic alignment that is also common among Austronesian languages. It has head-initial directionality. It is an agglutinative language but can also display inflection. It is not a tonal language and can be considered a pitch-accent language and a syllable-timed language. It has nine basic parts of speech.

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