"Republic of the Philippines. National or official languages: Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino), English. 72,944,000 (1998 UN). Literacy rate 88% to 89%. Also includes Basque, Dutch 506, French 698, Standard German 961, Hindi 2,415, Indonesian 2,580, Italian 97, Japanese 2,899, Korean, Sindhi 20,000, Vietnamese, Arabic. Information mainly from L.A. Reid 1971; SIL 1954-1999. Christian, Muslim, secular, traditional religion. Blind population 1,144,500. Deaf population 100,000 to 4,232,519 (1998). Deaf institutions: 17. Data accuracy estimate: A1, A2. The number of languages listed for Philippines is 172. Of those, 169 are living languages and 3 are extinct. Diversity index 0.85"
