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 ...

Social media has become one of the spaces where the Filipino language changes most visibly. Everyday words and sentences are ...

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 ...

THE Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) launched a Filipino language tutorial series to strengthen cultural ties between overseas Filipinos (OFs) and their ancestral homeland. Under the CFO's ...

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 ...

As a child in the Philippines during the 1970s, Joi Barrios-Leblanc remembers singing songs that glorified the country's president Ferdinand Marcos, and his U.S-backed regime of martial law that ...

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, ...

For Filipino Australians who speak more than one language at home, answering the Census language question may not always be straightforward. Dr Franklin Soriano, multilingual spokesperson for the ...

August is the “Buwan ng Wika” (“National Language Month”) in the Philippines and the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi launched ...