MANILA, Philippines— Filipino, as the national language, should not be taken for granted as technology and artificial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claims that the term "Filipino" is not a language and solely refers to the identity and/or nationality of citizens of the Republic ...

A group of Filipino professors, scholars, and students in the Philippines is leading a campaign against government steps to remove the mandatory teaching of Filipino language and Panitikan (literature ...

There was a time when we tried to blend and embellish our Visayan culture with the perceptively overbearing (my biased opinion alone) Tagalogs by singing our national anthem in our own dialect. Using ...

People who were born in the last century like me grew up with the celebration of “Linggo ng Wika” in grade school. Today it is “Buwan ng Wika.” I don’t know how English is taught in K-12 classrooms ...

CONTEMPORARY Filipino is changing in ways that are often easier to hear in everyday usage than to capture in official descriptions of the language. Some shifts do not begin in grammar books, ...

The UC Berkeley Filipino language program was awarded the Kampeon ng Wika award, or language champion award, by the Philippine national Commission on the Filipino Language for its contributions in ...

MANILA, Philippines – In a home shaped by the discipline of the military and the creativity of media, three young siblings—Elijah, 10, a Grade 6 student; Ysha, 8, Grade3; and toddler Eliel, 2—are ...

The Filipino Language School of Canberra (FLSC) will mark Filipino Language Month with its annual Fiesta ng Bayan celebration ...