What is the native language in the Philippines?

Depends, where in the Philippines are you talking about? The official Language of the Philippines is Filipino but is actually just Tagalog, and any linguist will tell you that, no matter what the politicians say. read more

Philippines is the home of at least 175 different languages and you can never find any countries which such involving so many languages like the Philippines. Their main languages are English and Filipino. read more

The Malay language, along with Philippine languages belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian language family, has also had an immense influence on many languages spoken in the Philippines. This is because Old Malay used to be the lingua franca throughout the archipelago, a good example of this is Magellan's translator Enrique using Malay to converse with the native Sugbuanon during this time period. read more