Philippine English
Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is any variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries. English is taught in schools as one of the two official languages of the country, the other being Filipino. Due to the influx of Filipino English teachers overseas, Philippine English is also becoming the prevalent variety of English being learned in the Far East as taught by Filipino teachers in various Asian countries such as South Korea, Japan and Thailand, among others. Due to the highly multilingual nature of the Philippines, code-switching such as Taglish (Tagalog-infused English) and Bislish (English infused with any of the Bisayan languages) is prevalent across domains from casual settings to formal situations.
Philippine English | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Region | Southeast Asia |
Native speakers | L1: 200,000 (2020) L2 speakers: 52 million (2020) |
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Official status | |
Official language in | Philippines |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | phil1246 |
IETF | en-PH |
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