Central Philippine languages

Central Philippine
Central Philippine
Geographic; distribution	Philippines, Malaysia (eastern seaboard of Sabah state), Indonesia (northeastern part of North Kalimantan province)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine? Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine; ; ; ;
Proto-language	Proto-Central Philippine
Subdivisions	Kasiguranin–Tagalog; Bikol; Mansakan; Bisayan;
Language codes
Glottolog	cent2246

The Central Philippine languages are the most geographically widespread demonstrated group of languages in the Philippines, being spoken in southern Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and Sulu. They are also the most populous, including Tagalog (and Filipino), Bikol, and the major Visayan languages Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Kinaray-a, and Tausug, with some forty languages all together.^[1]

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[1] Ethnologue.

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Central Philippine
Geographic distribution	Philippines, Malaysia (eastern seaboard of Sabah state), Indonesia (northeastern part of North Kalimantan province)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine? Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine
Proto-language	Proto-Central Philippine
Subdivisions	Kasiguranin–Tagalog Bikol Mansakan Bisayan
Language codes
Glottolog	`cent2246`

Central Philippine languages

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