Central Philippine languages

Central Philippine
Central Philippine
Geographic; distribution	Philippines
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine? Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine; ; ; ;
Proto-language	Proto-Central Philippine
Subdivisions	Kasiguranin–Tagalog; Bikol; Mansakan; Bisayan;
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]

^ Ethnologue.

[1] Ethnologue.

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Central Philippine
Geographic distribution	Philippines
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine? Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine
Proto-language	Proto-Central Philippine
Subdivisions	Kasiguranin–Tagalog Bikol Mansakan Bisayan
Glottolog	`cent2246`