Arguably, English is the closest we have to a universal (though not official) language across the more than 7,100 islands making up the Philippine archipelago. Even our very own national language, Filipino, which is actually based on Tagalog, the prevailing and dominant dialect in Central Luzon, is not spoken natively throughout the Philippines. While Filipino (Tagalog) is the first (native) language of only a small relative portion of the local population, English is perhaps the second language adopted by the vast majority of citizens in the country.

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