Home›New Guinea and Pacific Language Families›Region›PhilippinesBrowse ByPhilippinesRegion names where a language family is spoken today, which can be far wider than where it began. Wikipedia notes several Indo-European languages "have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across Africa, Americas, Oceania and North Asia." This dimension shows the present-day reach of a family rather than only its point of origin.FactsPhilippinesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested840 1PhilippinesFilter Results11 entriesMacro-areaAllAustronesian (Oceanic) Languages (9)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (9)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (1)New Guinea and Pacific Sign Languages (1)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllCentral Philippine languages (1)Speaker Count BandAll24,600 to 795,000 (1)592 to 23,000 (1)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (2)Classification StatusAllEstablished (5)Number of LanguagesAll1 (1)16 to 1,408 (1)3 to 5 (1)6 to 15 (3)In GroupAllAustronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (9)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (1)New Guinea and Pacific Sign Languages (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 11Ati language (Philippines)PhilippinesBikolPhilippinesBisakol languagesPhilippinesCentral Cordilleran languagesPhilippinesFilipino Sign LanguagePhilippinesMolbog-Bonggi languagesPhilippinesNortheastern Luzon languagesPhilippinesNorthern Philippine languagesPhilippinesPhilippine SpanishPhilippinesSambalic languagesPhilippinesSouthern Cordilleran languagesPhilippinesSources1. Wikipedia: Languages Of Papua New GuineaWikimedia FoundationLead section (Papua New Guinea, the macroarea's linguistic core)Quote, Lead section (Papua New Guinea, the macroarea's linguistic core)Ethnologue, among other sources, state that there are 840 living languages spoken in the country, although estimates vary due to the distinction between a language and a dialect.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.