It's an exciting day for IEDP 2010 - we're going to have a Filipino language class today! I'm a bit of a language nerd, so I'm looking forward to it, at any rate.
Filipino, or Tagalog, is the one of the two official languages of the Philippines - the other being English - but there are twelve other indigenous languages with over a million speakers, and there are about 150 more languages spoken in the country. (Filipino languages are part of the Austronesian language family, which includes pretty much all of the languages of the Pacific Islands, including Hawaiian.)
And if that weren't enough, Tagalog itself has several regional variants.
On the bright side, Filipino is at least written in the Latin alphabet, so we don't need to learn how to read and write all over again.
If you want to wish us luck in our linguistic pursuits, feel free - it turns out that the traditional Filipino phrase for "good luck" is..."good luck"! That, at least, will be easy to remember.
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This was pretty fun; thanks to Rebecca for setting it up!
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