By Sherma E. Benosa BilingualPen.com 1.0 Introduction Ilocano, the third most widely spoken language in the Philippines, plays an important role in the everyday lives of its speakers, especially those in Ilocano-speaking provinces. It is widely used in mass media, in governance, at home, and everywhere, except in school. That is, until recently. For …
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By Divine Angeli P. Endriga University of Asia and the Pacific University of the Philippines-Diliman +63-905-340-1792 dapendriga@gmail.com, dendriga@uap.edu.ph Paper presented at the 1st Philippine Conference Workshop on MotherTongue-Based Multilingual Education held February 18-20, 2010 at Cagayan de Oro City. ABSTRACT: This paper is a description of the dialectology of Cebuano spoken in the provinces …
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38wG5BX2auc&fs=1&hl=en_US] There have been well-intentioned attempts to simplify or standardize the orthography for Philippine languages, no less influenced by Lope K. Santos [who was born on September 25, 1879, as Lope C. Santos to Ladislao Santos and Victoria Canseco, both natives of Rizal province. He used Kanseko instead of Canseco for his middle name to show his …
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By Bonifacio F. Comandante, Jr. (Presented at the 1st MLE Conference, “Reclaiming the Right to Learn in One’s Own Language,” Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City, Feb 18-20, 2010.) ABSTRACT: Miguel Lopez de Legaspi first experienced the linguistic diversity of the Philippine Archipelago on 1565. In the succeeding years, Catholic missionaries were heaping praises on …
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