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Mountain Province (Ilocano: Probinsia ti Bantay; Filipino: Lalawigang Bulubundukin [3]) is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Bontoc while Bauko is the largest municipality. Mountain Province was formerly referred to as Mountain in some foreign references.
A competition for a new seal for Cabuyao was held. The design of Domingo Alconaba, a native painter of the then town of Cabuyao was chosen. It was adopted as the official seal by the virtue of Municipal Resolution No. 165-1993 which was authored by Municipal Council member, Dionisio S. Punongbayan.
The replacement of ñ with another letter alters the pronunciation and meaning of a word or name, in the same manner that replacing any letter in a given word with another one would. For example, Peña is a common Spanish surname and a common noun that means "rocky hill"; it is often anglicized as Pena , changing the name to the Spanish word ...
Yellow field with the provincial shield in the center. Set in a wide arc above the shield are the words "SAGISAG NG LALAWIGAN NG LAGUNA" written in dark green. Below the shield are four five-pointed stars, thinly fimbriated dark green and arranged in a straight line. Most common flag proportion is 1:2. [4] restoration of current flag: ca. June ...
The syllable is the basic unit of word structure, and each syllable consists of one vowel and one or two consonants only, arranged in the following patterns: CV, CVC and, in some instances, CCV (which is found mostly in Spanish loanwords). A word consists of one or more of these syllables.
There are attempts of modernizing Baybayin such as adding letters like R, C, V, Z, F, Q, and X that are not originally on the script in order to make writing modern Filipino words easier such as the word Zambales and other provinces and towns in the Philippines that have Spanish origins.
The Tagalog language and the Filipino language have developed unique vocabulary since the former's inception from its direct Austronesian roots and the latter's inception as the developed and formally adopted common national language or national lingua franca of the Philippines from 1973 to 1987 and onward, incorporating words from Malay, Hokkien, Spanish, Nahuatl, English, Sanskrit, Tamil ...
Early Spanish accounts rendered the toponym as Donblon [6] in Spanish orthography, which is probably based on the native word lomlom, a term with cognates across many Philippine languages meaning "dark," or "shady," [95] perhaps in reference to the once-thick forests of, or the clouds that constantly form over, the island that now bears the ...