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Philippine English | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Region | Southeast Asia |
Native speakers | L1: 200,000 (2020)[1] L2 speakers: 52 million (2020)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | phil1246 |
IETF | en-PH[2] |
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Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is a variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries. English is taught in schools as one of the two official languages of the country, the other being Filipino, a standardized form of Tagalog. Due to the influx of Philippine English teachers overseas, Philippine English is also becoming the prevalent variety of English being learned in the Far East as taught by Filipino teachers in various Asian countries such as South Korea, Japan, and Thailand among others.[citation needed] Due to the highly multilingual and bilingual nature of the Philippines, code-switching such as Taglish (Tagalog-infused English) and Bislish (English infused with any of the Bisayan languages) is prevalent across domains from casual settings to formal situations.[3][4][5][6][7][8]