What are the 187 languages in the Philippines?
The most popular ones are Filipino, Tagalog, Bisaya, Ilocano, Bikol, Kapampangan, Waray-Waray, and Pangasinan. When an Inquirer article posted this year mentioned Bisaya as a dialect, I wrote in the comments section that it was actually a language.
What are the 8 major languages in the Philippines?
Eight (8) major dialects spoken by majority of the Filipinos: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicolano, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinense. Filipino is that native language which is used nationally as the language of communication among ethnic groups.
What is the 12th most spoken language?
Keep reading to see the most spoken languages in the world.
| Language | # of speakers |
|---|---|
| English | 1.13 billion |
| Mandarin Chinese | 1.11 billion |
| Hindi | 615 million |
| Spanish | 534 million |
What language was spoken in the Bible?
Hebrew was the language of scholars and the scriptures. But Jesus’s “everyday” spoken language would have been Aramaic. And it is Aramaic that most biblical scholars say he spoke in the Bible.