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Philippine English is the variety of English used in the Philippines by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP Filipinos or the Filipino people are the citizens of the Philippines. English is taught in schools as one of the two official languages of the country, the other being Filipino, the standardized dialect of Tagalog. An official language is a Language that is given a special legal status in a particular Country, State, or other territory Filipino is the national and an Official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. A standard language (also standard dialect, standardized dialect, or standardised dialect) is a particular variety of a Language that Tagalog is one of the major languages used in the Philippines.

Most Filipinos understand, write and speak English, Tagalog and their respective local language. In Philippines there are over 170 languages almost all of them belong to the Austronesian language family. English is used in education, religious affairs, print and broadcast media, and business, though the number of people who use it as a second language far outnumber those who speak it as a first language (see List of countries by English-speaking population). A second language (L2 is any Language learned after the first language or mother tongue (L1 A first language (also mother tongue, native language, arterial language, or L1) is the language a human being learns from birth This is a list of Countries of the world sorted by the total English -speaking population in that Country. Still, for highly technical subjects such as nursing, medicine, computing, and calculus, English is the preferred medium for textbooks, communication, etc. Very few would prefer highly technical books in the vernacular. Movies and TV programs in English are not subtitled and are expected to be directly understood.

English, as it is taught in the Philippines, is very similar to North American English. North American English is a collective term used for the varieties of the English language that are spoken in North America, namely in the United States However, most schools in the Philippines are staffed by teachers who are not native Anglophones and thus think using Austronesian instead of Germanic grammatical structures. Education in the Philippines has a similar system to that of the United States. An Anglophone (or anglophone) is someone who speaks the English language. The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE Language family. Non-standard usage arises from their second language acquisition of English. Second language acquisition is the process by which people learn a second language in addition to their native language(s.

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Orthography and grammar

Philippine English generally follows American standards, except when it comes to punctuation. Phonology North American English regional phonology In many ways compared to English English, North American English is conservative in its Phonology. For example, a comma almost never precedes the final item in an enumeration. The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is the comma used immediately before a Grammatical conjunction

Vocabulary and usage

Some words and phrases and their respective definitions or uses are peculiar to Philippine English and may not appear in most English dialects. A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος dialektos) is a variety of a Language that is characteristic of a particular group of Some examples are:

Phonology

Among mother-tongue speakers, the phonology of Philippine English almost completely resembles that of the North American variant (thus, Philippine English is a rhotic accent), while the speech of those who are not native speakers is influenced to varying degrees by Tagalog and other indigenous Philippine languages. Phonology North American English regional phonology In many ways compared to English English, North American English is conservative in its Phonology. English pronunciation is divided into two main accent groups the rhotic (ˈroʊtɪk and non-rhotic, depending on when the sound typically represented A first language (also mother tongue, native language, arterial language, or L1) is the language a human being learns from birth Since many English phonemes are not found in most Philippine languages, pronunciation approximations are extremely common. English phonology is the study of the Phonology (ie the sound system of the English language.

Some examples of non-native pronunciation include:

The above list applies mainly to Tagalog speakers; a number of other indigenous languages employ phonemes such as [f], [v], and [z]. It should also be noted that this form of mispronunciation, caused by the limited sound inventories of most Philippine languages compared to English (which has more than 40 phonemes), is generally frowned upon by Anglophone Filipinos, in particular, and businesses dealing with international clients.

History

Although the first exposure to English was in 1762 to 1764 when the British invaded Manila, English from that time never had any lasting influence. Year 1762 ( MDCCLXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1764 ( MDCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a The City of Manila English was assimilated when the United States took over the Philippines. In 1898, Spain ceded control of the Philippines to the United States under the Treaty of Paris, and thereafter the Americans controlled the Philippines until it gained its independence in 1946. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Treaty of Paris of 1898, signed on December 10, 1898, ended the Spanish-American War. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. By the time of the Japanese occupation of World War II, English had become so entrenched as an official language that official proclamations and currency were issued in English as well as Japanese and Tagalog. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Americans established a system of public education wherein English was used as the main language of instruction. After independence, the Philippine government continued public education in English, while simultaneously establishing Filipino as its national language. A parallel system of private schools, many of which were established by the Catholic and the Protestant churches, follows the dual-language system, although private schools tend to use English more than Filipino in their instruction.

Industries based on English

The abundant supply of English speakers and competitive labor costs have enabled the Philippines to become a choice destination for foreign companies wishing to establish call centers and other outsourcing operations. A call centre or call center (see spelling differences) is a centralized office used for the purpose of receiving and transmitting a large volume of requests by Outsourcing is Subcontracting a process such as product design or Manufacturing, to a Third-party company English proficiency sustains a major call center industry, and as of 2005, America Online (AOL) has 1,000 people in what used to be the US Air Force's Clark Air Base in Angeles City answering ninety percent of their global e-mail inquiries. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Clark Air Base is a former United States Air Force base on Luzon Island in the Philippines, located 3 miles west of Angeles City, about 40 miles Citibank does its global ATM programming in the country, and Procter & Gamble has over 400 employees in Makati, a Manila suburb, doing back office work for their Asian operations including finance, accounting, Human Resources and payments processing. Citibank is a major international Bank, founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York. Procter & Gamble Co ( P&G,) is a Fortune 500, American global corporation based in Cincinnati Ohio, that manufactures a wide The City of Makati, or simply See Call center industry in the Philippines

An influx of foreign students, principally from Korea, has also lead to growth in the number of English language centers, especially in Metro Manila, Baguio City and Metro Cebu. In 2004 the Philippines already captured 20 percent of the total world market share in contact center services Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries a civilization and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. Metropolitan Manila ( Filipino: Kalakhang Maynila, Kamaynilaan) or the National Capital Region (NCR ( Filipino: Pambansang FROM OLD INFOBOX map_file = Ph_locator_cebu_metro_cebupng | 100px | cities = 7 | municipalities = 6 | barangays = 349 | districts

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