English: This video was submitted by James Habitan from Valenzuela City, Philippines. His mother tongue, Filipino, known natively as Wikang Filipino, is a standardized form of the Tagalog language spoken by as many as 70 million people throughout the Republic of the Philippines, where it is co-official alongside English. It is also common among diaspora communities worldwide. An Austronesian language, Filipino shares common genealogy with languages throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans, from Hawaiian in Polynesia to Malagasy in Madagascar. Since the language is one of the principal lingua francas of the Philippines, the Filipino-speaking community is extremely diverse: only 28 million, or less than half, claim the language as their mother tongue, while the rest claim the country’s other 180 languages.
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The following transcript applies to the Filipino portion of this video.
Filipino/Tagalog: Magandang araw sa inyong lahat. Ako si Jaime Luis S. Habitan pero maaaring ninyong tawagin James. Ako'y 26 na gulang na pero magiging 27 gulang na ako sa darating na ika-31 ng agosto taong kasalukuyan. Ako'y isang Pilipino na nakatira sa Kalakhang Maynila. Nagtatrabaho ako bilang isang video editor sa Lungsod ng Makati. Tatlo ang alam kong wika: ang wikang Pilipino, ang wikang Inggles at ang wikang Espanyol na kasalukuyan kong inaaral ngayon sa Instituto Cervantes sa Lungsod ng Makati.
English translation: Good day to you all. I'm Jaime Luis S. Habitan but you can call me James. I'm 26 but will be 27 this year on Aug 31. I'm a Filipino living in Metro Manila. I work as a video editor in the City of Makati. I know three languages: Pilipino, English and Spanish that I'm currently studying in the Cervantes Institute in Makati City.