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Other Filipino Writers: Francisco Arcellana. Francisco Balagtas. Lualhati Bautista. Carlos Bulosan. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. Linda Ty Casper. Gilbert Luis R. Centina III. Gilda Cordero-Fernando.

Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino) are the people who are native to or citizens of the country of the Philippines. Filipinos come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups. Currently, there are more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines; each with its own language, identity, culture and history. The number of individual languages listed for Philippines is 185. Of these, 183 are living and 2 are extinct. Of the living languages, 175 are indigenous and 8 are non-indigenous. Furthermore, as of 2019, 39 are institutional, 67 are developing, 38 are vigorous, 28 are endangered, and 11 are dying.