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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Philippines Indonesia (Northern Sulawesi , northern portion of North Kalimantan ) Malaysia (Parts of Sabah ) Taiwan ( Orchid Island )
- Native speakers
- (undated figure of 115+ million)
- 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
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- Philippine languages
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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 the Molbog language (disputed)—and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages. Although the Philippines is near the center of Austronesian expansion from Taiwan, there is relatively 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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