Introduction to Philippines Dialect

1. Introduction to
Philippines Dialect
By Diana Rose P. Dino

2. Introduction
• Throughout the 7,100 island archipelagos, Filipinos speak nearly 90
languages and dialects. The three major dialects are Ilocano (northern Luzon,
also the dialect spoken most commonly by Filipinos in Hawaii and on the
U.S. mainland); Tagalog (central and southern Luzon); and Cebuano
(southern islands) (BYU, 1986). Linguistically, these three dialects and all
major indigenous languages are historically related ; they derive from Original
Indonesian as a subfamily of the Austronesian or Malayo-Polynesian
languages and share most of their basic grammatical features (Harper and
Fullerton, 1994; Li, 1983)

3. Dialect
• a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social
group

4. 8 Major Dialect
• The Philippines has 8 major dialects. Listed in the figure from top to bottom:
Bikol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon (Ilonggo), Ilocano, Kapampangan, Pangasinan,
Tagalog, and Waray. The language being taught all over the Philippines is
Tagalog and English.