Philippine languages
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This article is about a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family. For the native languages spoken in the Philippines, see Languages of the Philippines.
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language—and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages.[1][2][3][4] Although the Philippines is near the center of Austronesian expansion from Formosa, there is little linguistic diversity among the approximately 150 Philippine languages, suggesting that earlier diversity has been erased by the spread of the ancestor of the modern Philippine languages.[5][2]
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| Philippine | |
|---|---|
| Philippinic | |
| (proposed) | |
| Geographic distribution |
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| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Proto-language | Proto-Philippine (disputed) |
| Subdivisions | |
| ISO 639-2 / 5 | phi |
| Glottolog | None |
 The Philippine languages, per Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) | |
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