About Latin Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Latin is a classical language and it belongs to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was spoken by people in Rome, known as Latium. With the growth of the power of the Roman Republic, the Latin language gained a lot of popularity. It became the dominant language in Italy and the western Roman Empire. Latin is similar to the English language. Latin roots are used in English descriptions and are used in exploring sciences, medicine, and law. Latin had been standardized into Classical Latin and the colloquial form of the language is spoken in many parts of the world. Late Latin was the written language in the 3rd century. It was then developed in the 6th to 9th centuries and became a part of the Romance languages like Italian, Sardinian, Venetian, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Piedmontese, Lombard, French, Franco-Provençal, Occitan, Corsican, Ladin, Friulan, Romansh, Catalan/Valencian, Aragonese, Spanish, Asturian, Galician, Portuguese and Romanian. Early Modern Latin and New Latin became the first international communication until the 18th century.
About Filipino Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Filipino is the national language of the Philippines. Filipino is designated, along with English, and is the official language of the country. Tagalog is the first language of 24 million people and about one-fourth of the Philippine population speak Filipino. Filipino is spoken in "the native dialect and is written, in Metro Manila. It is also spoken in the urban centers of the archipelago". About 90% of the population speak Filipino and 60% can English in the Philippines. Filipino, uses verb-subject-object order and has head-initial directionality. It displays inflection and is not a tonal language. It has a pitch-accent language and a syllable-timed language. Filipino is officially taken as a pluricentric language and is enriched and developed by other Philippine Languages Filipino is enriched with grammatical properties and differs from Tagalog in many ways.
