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WITH close to 200 languages spoken all over the country (based on many different counts), the Philippines has such a large number of languages that the number of Filipino linguists documenting these languages might never be enough. Most linguistic studies done in the Philippines are in the realm of applied linguistics, but this is not surprising because there are many real-world language problems in developing countries like the Philippines. Actually, studies on (Philippine) English are more common among Filipino linguists than those on Philippine indigenous languages. I could only think of four institutions that are leading this endeavor of documenting and studying Philippine indigenous languages. The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), associated with printing the Bible in local languages, is also doing language documentation by many foreign linguists. There is also the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP), the premier national organization of linguists in the Philippines,

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