The Copy Editor

I'm Jojo Pasion Malig. I'm the usual suspect behind the night desk of the Philippines' leading news website. I like making interactive data eye candy. Mild prescriptivist.
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Al Jazeera English’s Jamela Alindogan reports on what’s being done to keep the Philippines’ more than 170 languages alive.

Here’s also an explainer I made on the difference between a language and dialect.

Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Waray-Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Maranao, Kinaray-a, Tausug, Maguindanaoan are languages.

Batangan Tagalog (Tagalog variant spoken in Batangas province) is a dialect of the Tagalog language.