***UPDATED 2018 VERSION*** -removed super technical terms and words for ease of understanding -made into PDF so that original fonts are seen The standard alphabet being taught in schools since the late 1980s, the Filipino alphabet consists of 28 letters (26 from the Latin alphabet plus Ñ loaned from the Spanish, and NG which came from locals). Alongside Ñ, C, F, J, Q, V, X and Z are also loan letters, with their use only limited to words coming from other Philippines languages as well as loanwords from English, Spanish and Arabic.