In The Philippines -- How many dialects can you speak?

i can only speak 2 dialects, ilocano and tagalog.

according to what i've learned in school. we have 106 dialects in the phillipines. and i can speak 6 dialects.

i can only speak 2... tagalog and ilocano.

I know two: tagalog and bikol :) maray na aldaw!

I think my native tongue is the most unique of all lolz I can speak Ibaloi (Original language of Baguio City) and Kankana-ey (Cordilleran language not a dialect), Ilocano, Tagalog i just can understand Ilonggo

I can speak three dialects: panagasinense, kapampangan, ilokano.

Hi bluemestizo. I speak fluent Ilonggo. I also speak Tagalog/ Filipino, that being our national language. I also know a little Karay-a, because my mom is from Capiz. Indeed there are a lot of languages to discover in our country. I have learned that there are like 90 languages in the Philippines, and how little I have discovered! Like you, I am also willing to learn Cebuano. I just recently went to Davao and Cebu, and the people speak Cebuano. It would be nice to learn the language. I better buy a dictionary....:D

i can speak cebuano and tagalog...before i tried to learn waray and ilonggo, but it is difficult...i always forget the words...

bicolano ka padi? saen ka sa bicol?

I could only speak Tagalog. I know a bit of Visayan and Chavacano, but nut fluent with those... I sound like a crazy fool when I try hard to speak fluently with those.

I can speak fluently Tagalog and Cebuano. What I find very difficult to comprehend is the Ilocano dialect

i'm from the Visayas Region... i know... 1. Hiligaynon Dialect 2. Cebuano Dialect 3. Karay-A Dialect as well as... 4. Tagalog Dialect

I can only speak Tagalog and Cebuano. I find it hard to adopt other Philippine dialects. I don't travel out here in Cebu so no wonder why I don't speak any other dialects. But I know some words from other dialects but only few to mention.

Hi, there! I'm from Mindanao, Philippines. I can only speak tagalog and cebuano.

when i was young i can only speak tagalog since its my primary dialect in our place. but now that i move to angeles city, i learned to speak a little kapampangan, i understand a bit ilokano too.

my dad is from pampanga but i can speak kapampangan. i can understand a little though. tagalog is the only dialect i speak.

i can speak fluently ilonggo (hiligaynon) kinaray-a, aklanon, and tagalog and a little bit of cebuano.

It's so sad that I could only speak tagalog because I grew up in manila but I know a few Waray words because Samar our province.

Every dialect in Philippines have uniqueness on their own. I lived in the melting pot of the Philippines in Mindanao (I believed)I learned my Ilocano from my dad and classmates in higschool, my Iloggo and Kinaray-a from my grandparents and classmates in college. I can now fluently speak Bisaya (Cebuano). Now am learning fast in Waray. So all in all I can speak 6 dialects plus Tagalog. If you know how to speak Bisaya, Ilonggo and Tagalaog its easy now for you to learn Bahasa Malayo. I found it the mixed-up dialects in Philippines.

I speak two languages in the Philippines (Bicol and Tagalog). By the way, they are not dialects because they are not derivatives of any languages. A dialect is a variation of a language (e.g. Bicol has spawned to various dialects - partido, tiwi, camalig, sorsogon, etc. - all can trace their roots in Bicol-Naga or Legazpi). But all these dialects can understand each other. So Buhi and Rinconanda area have their own distinct languages because I can hardly understand a native speaker from these areas. Entonces, once you don't undertand one form of communication from yours, then that form of communication is a language, not a dialect. Another example is Tagalog. Tagalog has many dialects in the tagalog regions; laguna, batangas, bulacan, cavite, rizal, and ncr; but people from this region can understand each other.