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The Philippines is a multi-lingual country. According to findings by University of North Dakota’s Summer Institute of Linguistics (headed by Dr. Richard S. Pittman), there are 55 languages and 142 dialects spoken in the country.  However, the 1916 work of German anthropologist Dr. H. Otley Beyer lists only 43 major languages and 87 significantly different dialects (50 of which claim more than 10,000 speakers. There are eight major dialects: Tagalog (23.82%), Cebuano (24.39%), Ilocano (11.14%), Ilonggo (9.99%), Bicolano (6.96%), Waray (4.62%), Kapampangan (3.43%) and Pangalatok (2.26%).