Filipino alphabet

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The Filipino alphabet (Filipino: Alpabetong Filipino, formerly Alfabetong Filipino) is the official alphabet of Filipino, the national language of the Philippines, and the de facto alphabet of all other Philippine languages. The standard Filipino alphabet is made up of 28 letters, comprising the entire letter set of the ISO basic Latin alphabet, the Spanish letter Ñ, and the nativized digraph NG. The digraph was retained from the 31-letter "enriched" Filipino alphabet (Filipino: Pinagyamang Alpabetong Filipino), which was adopted from the 20-letter Abakada alphabet (Filipino: Abakada), in turn adapted from the digraph N͠G under the 32-letter modified Spanish alphabet (Filipino: Abesedaryo). In 2013, the Commission on the Filipino Language (Filipino: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino) published Ortograpiyang Pambansa ("National Orthography"), a new set of guidelines that resolved long-standing issues in phonemic representation across Philippine languages. This was supplemented in 2014 by KWF...

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