Philippine languages

Philippine
Philippine
Philippinic
(proposed)
Geographic; distribution	Philippines; Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia; Eastern Sabah, Malaysia; Orchid Island, Taiwan;
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine; ;
Proto-language	Proto-Philippine (disputed)
Subdivisions	Batanic; Northern Luzon; Central Luzon; North Mangyan; Umiray Dumaget; Manide–Alabat; Greater Central Philippine; Ati; Kalamian; South Mindanao; Klata; Minahasan; Sangiric;
ISO 639-2 / 5	phi
Glottolog	None
	The Philippine languages, per Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005)

The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and a few languages of Palawan—and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages. Although the Philippines is near the center of Austronesian expansion from Formosa, there is little linguistic diversity among the approximately 150 Philippine languages, suggesting that earlier diversity has been erased by the spread of the ancestor of the modern Philippine languages.

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