pure substance substance made up of only one type of particle (element or compound) examples: a bucket of pure water, a balloon of helium, a brick of pure gold atom smallest particle into which an element can be divided and still keep its same properties/characteristics
Languages in the Philippines. Filipino (formerly Pilipino) is based on Tagalog and is the official language of the Philippines. In spite of being the national language, only about 55 percent of Filipinos speak the language. In addition to Filipino are about 111 distinct indigenous languages and dialects, of which only about 10 are important regionally.
Some residents of Metro Manila also speak Visayan. Over thirty languages constitute the Visayan language family. The Visayan language with the most speakers is Cebuano, spoken by 20 million people as a native language in Central Visayas, parts of Eastern and Western Visayas and most of Mindanao.