THE roughly 180 languages spoken in the Philippines belong to the Austronesian family of languages. This large family of languages is spoken in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and the Pacific, as well as in Madagascar and Oceania.
Although it is only spoken by about 5 percent of the world's population, or 380 million people , the Austronesian language family has the second-largest number of languages among language families — an estimated 1,200 belong to it. Quite a number of its languages are spoken by very few people — Isarog Agta in Camarines Sur only had five remaining speakers in 2000! — but it also includes major languages such as Tagalog, Malay and Javanese.
In its effort to produce more Bibles in the local languages, the Summer Institute of Linguistics has also been involved in documenting Philippine languages, particularly endangered ones.The study of Austronesian languages is very important not only for those regions where these languages are spoken but also because they contribute to general linguistic theorizing in defining the so-called universal grammar.
Austronesian Family Of Languages
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