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Translate your product to Filipino
Filipino is spoken by 45M+ people in the Philippines, a nation of over 115M with one of the world's most active social-media and mobile-app markets. Manila and Cebu host a growing tech and BPO sector with rising demand for localized software.
Why add Filipino to your product?
A mobile-first digital economy
The Philippines has one of the highest rates of mobile and social-media usage in the world, with e-commerce and digital services adoption accelerating year over year. Businesses that meet users on mobile, in their own language, see stronger engagement.
A large population with global reach
The Philippines is home to over 115M people, and millions of Filipino speakers work and live abroad across the Gulf states, North America, and Europe. A single Filipino translation reaches both the domestic market and this global diaspora.
A growing outsourcing-to-tech economy
The Philippines built one of the world's largest business-process outsourcing industries, and that expertise increasingly feeds a homegrown software and digital-services sector. Filipino businesses are active and growing buyers of international SaaS tools.
A sophisticated but locale-preferring audience
Filipino professionals are broadly comfortable in English, but that shouldn't be mistaken for indifference to localization โ software-buying research consistently shows users engage more deeply and convert better with products offered in their own language, especially outside strictly enterprise contexts.
Add Filipino in 3 steps
- 1
Create a Lingvit project
Sign up at app.lingvit.com and create a project for your site. Select Filipino as a target language.
- 2
Paste the script tag
Copy your project script tag and add it before
</body>on every page. One line โ no SDK, no build changes.<script src="https://cdn.lingvit.com/widget.bundle.js?v=1" async></script> - 3
Go live
Deploy your site as usual. Visitors with Filipino browser settings see your content in Filipino automatically. Review and refine translations any time from the dashboard.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is Filipino machine translation?
Filipino (Tagalog-based) has a large amount of digital content and strong coverage in modern machine translation systems, including extensive code-switching with English that these systems handle reasonably well. For marketing copy or nuanced messaging, the Lingvit editorial dashboard lets you review and refine translations before they go live.
Does Filipino use any special characters Lingvit needs to support?
Filipino uses the Latin alphabet with an additional letter, ร, plus occasional use of the ng digraph and glottal-stop marks in formal writing. All of these are fully supported and render correctly across browsers and devices.
Is localizing to Filipino worth it given how many Filipinos speak English?
Yes for most consumer and SMB-facing products. While English fluency is high, especially in business contexts, Filipino localization still improves trust, engagement, and conversion for e-commerce, consumer apps, and mass-market audiences โ and it differentiates you from competitors who only offer English.
Start translating to Filipino today
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