Country Info

Philippines Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 99,460,232 people (95% of Philippines) that can read or write at least one language.

20 Writing Systems used in Philippines

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
66,723,840
people

Filipino (Latin)

fil-latn
language code
62,553,600
people

Spanish (Latin)

es-latn
language code
32,319,360
people

Cebuano (Latin)

ceb-latn
language code
25,021,440
people

Iloko (Latin)

ilo-latn
language code
10,008,576
people

Hiligaynon (Latin)

hil-latn
language code
8,757,503
people

Bikol (Latin)

bik-latn
language code
3,127,680
people

Waray (Latin)

war-latn
language code
3,023,424
people

(Latin)

bhk-latn
language code
2,397,887
people

Pampanga (Latin)

pam-latn
language code
2,397,887
people

Pangasinan (Latin)

pag-latn
language code
1,459,583
people

Maguindanaon (Latin)

mdh-latn
language code
1,251,072
people

Tausug (Latin)

tsg-latn
language code
1,146,816
people

Chinese (Traditional)

zh-hant
language code
761,068
people

Capiznon (Latin)

cps-latn
language code
688,089
people

Kinaray-a (Latin)

krj-latn
language code
406,598
people

Rinconada Bikol (Latin)

bto-latn
language code
291,916
people

Hanunoo (Latin)

hnn-latn
language code
16,680
people

Tagbanwa (Latin)

tbw-latn
language code
10,008
people

Buhid (Latin)

bku-latn
language code
8,027
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR