page_title: Filipino community in Toronto
section_title: Toronto Public Library
hierarchical_section_title: Filipino community in Toronto / Institutional support / Toronto Public Library
caption_attribution_description: English: Traditional Filipino dance.
context_page_description: The Filipino community in Toronto comprises 62% of the Filipino population in Canada. In 2007, 140 000 Filipinos lived in Toronto, accounting for 3% of Toronto’s overall population. According to the study conducted in 2001, 57% of the Filipino community were female.
context_section_description: Previous censuses show that Filipinos in Toronto speak Tagalog more often than any other Philippine language,  giving primacy to the Tagalog language on Toronto Public Library’s shelves.  Though Filipinos are the fourth largest visible minority group in Toronto (2008), the Toronto Public Library’s Tagalog items numbered fewer than 7000 or less than 1 percent of the Toronto Public Library’s entire multilingual collection in 2006.  In 2009, the Toronto Public Library had eight branches with Tagalog collections across Toronto. The larger Tagalog collections are found in neighbourhoods where there are more Tagalog speakers. The large collections at Barbara Frum and Malvern are located near the intersection of several areas where many Filipinos live . Based on physical examination of shelves and anecdotal evidence provided by staff at the Toronto Public Library branches with Tagalog collections, Tagalog paperbacks and melodramatic movies are borrowed more often than award-winning novels and films. Tagalog shows dominate Philippine television today, but Hollywood movies are much more popular than locally produced ones. With regard to Philippine music, Filipino singers are just as likely to perform Tagalog songs as English ones, and the titles of the songs they sing in concerts, on TV, and on their CDs reflect this reality. There is a significant demand for Tagalog materials, though Filipinos who most often speak Tagalog at home are not as many as the English-speaking ones. However, Tagalog is not the language spoken or read by most Filipinos. This is especially the case for 63% of Filipinos in Toronto who speak English at home. The Philippines has 8 major languages and almost 500 dialects, but the language of its mass media are limited to English and Tagalog.
caption: Traditional Philippine music and dance.
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