Philippine Language and some Dialects

Manuel Quezon declared Filipino or Tagalog as Philippines' National Language. English is another official language that we consider which is also taught in school.

Filipinos are known as good speakers. We welcome different foreigners over the world in our land. We speak good English that allows us to converse with these tourists. Aside from Tagalog and English, Philippines also has a lot of dialects spoken in different places.

These are some of the known dialects here in the Philippines:

• Cebuano

  The Cebuano dialect is also called by local speakers as Bisaya. Cebuano was derived from the word Cebu which is the place of origin of this dialect.

• Bicolano

  It is a group of dialects spoken in the Bicol Region. These dialects Albayanon, Bikol Naga and other dialects.

• Ilocano

  It is an Autronesian language of Ilocos that is affiliated to languages like Malay, Tetum, Chamorro, Fijian, and more. This is considered as the 3rd most spoken dialect in the country.

• Chavacano

  A Spanish based creole which is being spoken in Cavite, Zamboanga, Cotabato, Davao and Ternate. Zamboanga City has the highest number of people that speaks this dialect.

• Tausug

  This dialect is very close to the Surigaonon dialect. It is widely spoken in the province of Sulu and in the eastern area of Sabah.

These are just few descriptions of some of the commonly spoken dialects in the Philippines.

Filipinos are amazing in many ways. One of those is by being multilingual. We speak our local dialect, we know how to converse with out Filipinos through Tagalog and we learned how to speak English to converse with foreigners.