Influenza pandemic. An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population. In contrast to the regular seasonal epidemics of influenza, these pandemics occur irregularlyâthere have been about 9 influenza pandemics during the last 300 years.
Chinese is also used in commerce. Very few Filipinos speak Spanish. <b>Filipino</b>, a language based on <b>Tagalog</b>, is the national language of the Philippines. Unfortunately, Tagalog is spoken by only 55 percent of the Filipinos. Other dialects spoken in the Philippines are Aklanon, Bicolano, Capiznon, Cebuano, Chavacano, Davaweno, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Kagayanen, Kinaray-a, Pampangan, Pangasinan, Sambal, Surigaonon, Tagalog and a hundred more.
There are some 120 to 175 languages in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Four others are no longer spoken. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages, whereas one, Chavacano, is a creole derived from a Romance language. Two are official (English and Filipino), while (as of 2015) nineteen are official auxiliary languages. Including second-language speakers, there are more speakers of Filipino than English in the Philippines [1]. The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino enumerated 135 Philippine languages present in the country through its Atlas Filipinas map published in 2014.