What Language Do Filipino Speak? Here are the Languages

What Language Do Filipino Speak

Read whether what language does Filipino speak; actually the national language of Filipino is only one, but the languages according to Wikipedia free encyclopedia, there are approximately 175 languages and dialects in the Philippines.

Common to the Filipino people could understand English; they are sharp in English language. The advantage of Filipino people that they can speak Tagalog if the person was from manila or near in that city that spoke Tagalog than to the English people where their language  were just English.

 Imagine the Cebuano, the Hiligaynon, karay – ay, Aklanon, Capiznon, Chavacano, Asi, Kapampangan and more.

 The Philippines is very rich in terms of languages, even they don’t understand each other unless they will speak Tagalog as the national language.

If the Tagalog people visit in Mindanao and encounter the Chavacano, if the Chavacano and Tagalog talk each other, the Chavacano needs to speak Tagalog due to the Chavacano could understood the Tagalog but the Tagalog people could not speak Chavacano unless to the Tagalog people can speak Chavacano as well.

The chavacano language when you compare it to the Spanish or Portuguese this language in the Philippines is almost near in those foreign languages. This language might influenced by the Spaniards during the colonization period in the Philippines. 

Same also to the people in Iloilo, the illonggo people could speak Tagalog and Hiligaynon as their mother tongue but Tagalog people could not understood Hiligaynon unless someone knows how to speak Hiligaynon. 

Plus if the Hiligaynon speaking people encountered with Cebuano; what happen if they both could not understand each other? They will use either Tagalog or English language. The hindrance of communication in Philippines was the language as the barrier of communication.

If you are from other country and wants to visit the Philippines, use plain English and speak it well, remember not all people in the Philippines are professionals, professionals could understood profound English compare to none – professional people especially if the old people. If you need something, ask the youth or the people with age of 40 below but not 17 years old below.

Native Filipino people called Pinoy if man and Pinay if woman— Pinays if plural and Pinoys for the men. In the Philippines have many interpretations due to languages like the word as noun fire. Fire in Filipino as former Tagalog was apoy – the apoy word was kalayo in Hiligaynon, kalayo in Hiligaynon and fire in English.

The rice is the common food those ate by Filipino people. The rice in Tagalog as former by Filipino was bigas if we translate it in the Hiligaynon was bugas.

Here is the one phrase that you might get confuse if you do not understand this clearly.

The inihaw word in Filipino is either the meat of fish, pork, beef, goat and more which undergone heating by the used of charcoal. But in Hiligaynon the word inihaw was the goat, cow and the like animals was killed for food. 

The word inihaw was the past tense of ihaw that was called to the killing of goat for food, for market and more. The perfect present tense of the ihaw in Hiligaynon is "gina ihaw" past perfect tense was "naihaw" future perfect tense is "ilihawon."

Ihaw word is a confusable word due to have different meanings with different applications.