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Endangered and extinct languages in the Philippines are based on the 3rd world volume released by UNESCO in 2010. Degree of endangerment (UNESCO standard) Safe: language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted. Vulnerable: most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g ...
Filipino (English: / ˌ f ɪ l ɪ ˈ p iː n oʊ / ⓘ, FIH-lih-PEE-noh; [1] Wikang Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family.It is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the Philippines, lingua franca (Karaniwang wika), and one of the two official languages (Wikang opisyal/Opisyal na wika) of the country, with English. [2]
The Philippines' Department of Education first implemented the program in the 2012–2013 school year. Mother Tongue as a subject is primarily taught in kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3. Mother Tongue as a subject is primarily taught in kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3.
Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa (Tagalog for 'National Language Month'), [1] [2] simply known as Buwan ng Wika ('Language Month') and formerly and still referred to as Linggo ng Wika ('Language Week'), is a month-long annual observance in the Philippines held every August to promote the national language, Filipino.
A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ / tə-GAH-log, [4] native pronunciation: [tɐˈɡaːloɡ] ⓘ; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority, mostly as or through Filipino.
The Mexicans especially were a major source of military migration to the Philippines and during the Spanish period they were referred to as guachinangos [141] [142] and they readily intermarried and mixed with native Filipinos. Bernal, the author of the book "Mexico en Filipinas" contends, that they were middlemen, the guachinangos in contrast ...
Old Tagalog ᬢᬕ᭄ᬮ Pronunciation [t̪ɐ̞gal̪og] Region: Philippines, particularly the present-day regions of Calabarzon and Mimaropa: Era: 10th century AD (developed into Classical Tagalog in c. 16th century; continued as modern Southern Tagalog dialects spoken in Aurora, [1] Calabarzon, and Mimaropa, most popular is the Batangas dialect.)
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language—and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages.