When a Filipino answers *”Filipinos speak what language?”* with *”Tagalog!”*, they’re often oversimplifying a reality far more complex. The nation’s linguistic landscape is a patchwork of 180+ living languages, where English dominates boardrooms, regional dialects thrive in rural markets, and even street slang reshapes daily conversation. What unites these tongues isn’t uniformity but fluidity—Filipinos code-switch […]