Editing Metro Manila (section)

=== Languages ===
The primary mainstream spoken casual [[vernacular]] language is [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] ([[Filipino language|Filipino]]), which is taught in all schools across Metro Manila under Filipino class. The main [[Prestige (sociolinguistics)|formal]] [[medium of instruction]] used in schools and the main language (at least primarily in most written contexts) for commerce, industry, and government is [[Philippine English|English]], ever since the [[History of the Philippines (1898–1946)|American colonial era]]. Meanwhile formerly, [[Philippine Spanish|Spanish]] used to be the [[Prestige (sociolinguistics)|formal]] [[lingua franca]] since the [[History of the Philippines (1565–1898)|Spanish colonial era]] till the 20th century and is now mostly [[Moribund language|moribund]] across Metro Manila, besides the rare few families who may privately use it and the Spanish taught in a few schools and universities as a foreign language elective. Among [[Chinese Filipino]]s, [[Philippine Hokkien]] may also occasionally be heard spoken amongst fellow speakers especially within households, schools, churches, temples, businesses who privately use it, while [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] ([[Standard Chinese]]) is taught in [[Chinese school|Chinese class]] in [[List of Chinese schools in the Philippines|Chinese Filipino schools]] and as a foreign language elective in a few schools and universities. There are also the occasional speaker of other [[Philippine languages]] coming from the provinces working, studying, or living in Metro Manila, such as speakers of [[Cebuano language|Cebuano Bisaya]], [[Ilocano language|Ilocano]], [[Hiligaynon language|Hiligaynon (Ilonggo)]], [[Central Bikol]]ano, [[Chavacano]], [[Kapampangan language|Kapampangan]], [[Pangasinan language|Pangasinense]], [[Waray language|Waray]], etc. There are also the rare [[Japanese in the Philippines|Japanese Filipino]] that speaks [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Koreans in the Philippines|Korean Filipino]] that speaks [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Iranians in the Philippines|Iranian Filipino]] that speaks [[Persian language|Farsi]] (Persian), [[Indian Filipino]] that speaks [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] or etc. There are also a few [[Japanese school]]s teaching [[Japanese language|Japanese]] in Japanese class in Metro Manila, such as the [[Manila Japanese School]] and of course, a few schools and universities teaching it as a foreign language elective. Other languages also taught as foreign language electives in some universities and schools in Metro Manila besides those aforementioned are those such as, [[French language|French]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[German language|German]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Thai language|Thai]], [[Indonesian language|Bahasa Indonesia]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Russian language|Russian]], etc. Besides [[English language|English]] and [[Filipino language|Filipino]], there are also other [[newspaper]]s distributed across Metro Manila in languages such as [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] (i.e. [[United Daily News (Philippines)|United Daily News]], [[World News (newspaper)|World News]], [[Chinese Commercial News]], etc.), [[Japanese language|Japanese]] (i.e. [[Manila Shimbun]]), [[Korean language|Korean]] (i.e. Manila Seoul, Weekly Manila, Ilyo Shinmun,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gomilao |first=Jason |title=Philippine Korean Weekly Newspaper - Makati City |url=https://www.businesslist.ph/company/300920/philippine-korean-newspaper-ilyoshinmun |website=BusinessList.ph |date=September 14, 2018 |access-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725024301/https://www.businesslist.ph/company/300920/philippine-korean-newspaper-ilyoshinmun |url-status=live }}</ref> etc.) to cater to the aforementioned readers.