Hokkien dialect
Mandarin in the Philippines can be classified into two distinct Mandarin dialects: "Standard Mandarin" and "Colloquial Mandarin". Standard Mandarin is either the standard languages of Mainland China and Taiwan, while Colloquial Mandarin in the Philippines tends to combine features from Mandarin () and features from Hokkien () of the local Philippine Hokkien dialect, which is the heritage language of many Chinese Filipinos.