With 175 distinct native languages (sometimes incorrectly termed dialects ), it has about 3 of the worlds languages, yet only 0.2 of Earths land area, making the Philippines 15 times more diverse than average in terms of language diversity.
Of these seven million people, 47.7 learnt it as a second language. The census for 1948 reported that 7,126,913 people or 37.11 of the population spoke the language, representing an increase of 11.7 from the 1939 figure of 4,068,565. The Tagalog-based national language was, therefore, propagated not only in education but also in mass media and in official communication.
The Tagalog-based national language was taught in school only as one of the subject areas in 1940 but was not adapted as the medium of instruction. In the School Year of 1940-41, the teaching of the national language ( Wikang Pambansa ), with its new standardized orthography, was set by law in the fourth year of all high schools in both public and private schools throughout the country.
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