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Buwan ng Wika is a month-long annual observance in the Philippines to promote Filipino, the national language, and other indigenous languages. It was established in 1946 and renamed in 1997, and it includes events such as costume parades, music and dance competitions.
The Commission on the Filipino Language (CFL) is the official regulating body of the Filipino language and the successor of the Institute of National Language (INL). The INL was established in 1937 to develop and promote Tagalog as the national language of the Philippines.
Filipino is a standardized variety of Tagalog and the national language of the Philippines. It is an Austronesian language with nine parts of speech, agglutination and pitch-accent, and has been influenced by Malay, Spanish and English.
A poster is a large sheet that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration. Learn about the history of posters, from ancient times to the modern era, and how they are used for advertising, art, propaganda, and more.
Tanggol Wika is a Philippine-based organization that defends the Filipino language and opposes the K to 12 program that abolished Filipino subjects in college. It filed a Supreme Court petition in 2015 and won a temporary restraining order against the government policy.
The Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF; literally, "Center of the Filipino Language"), also known the Sentro, is a language academy, research center, and university-based publishing house that is part of the University of the Philippines System (UP).
Learn about the religious and cultural observances of Holy Week in the Philippines, a predominantly Catholic country. Find out the traditions, rituals, processions, and holidays of Palm Sunday, Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Black Saturday.
Learn about the Ilocano people, the third largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group, who speak Ilocano and live mainly in the Ilocos Region. Discover their pre-history, Spanish colonization, resistance, and migration to other parts of the Philippines and the world.