Republic of the Philippines, Republika ng Pilipinas. 84,566,000. National or official languages: Filipino, English. Literacy rate: 84%. Immigrant languages: American Sign Language, Basque, French (700), Hindi (2,420), Indonesian (2,580), Japanese (2,900), Korean, Sindhi (20,000), Standard German (960), Vietnamese. Also includes Arabic. Information mainly from L. A. Reid 1971; SIL 1954–2007; Zorc 1977. Blind population: 467,000. Deaf population: 12,914,601. The number of individual languages listed for Philippines is 175. Of those, 171 are living languages and 4 have no known speakers.
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