Last month, a group of educators, scholars and other prominent individuals filed a petition in the Supreme Court questioning the policies of the government which mandate the use of English as medium ...

LAST year, around New Year’s Day, I drew up a language and linguistics agenda for the Philippines for 2025. I thought of ...

The Philippines, a Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 7,000 islands, is like Latin American countries a former colony in the Spanish Empire. The Philippines was under Spanish rule for three ...

Updates form part of Alphabet’s drive to break language barriers Manila: GoogleTranslate has included five additional Philippine languages in a recent mega-update aimed at building bridges between the ...

In the Philippines, English language courses come with poolside classrooms, field trips to the beach, and instructors doubling as tour guides. English is widely spoken in the former American colony, ...

Arnel Valencia felt humiliated at school when he was barred from using the language he spoke at home, part of a decades-long pattern of linguistic destruction across the Philippines. “’Stop talking ...

'We believe that while Filipino is largely based on the grammatical rules or structure of Tagalog — because we had to start somewhere — it is in no way exclusive to that language' It is, of course, a ...

The catchphrase “Ato ini, kadyawon ta!” can be seen on tricycles in Butuan. It means “This is ours, let’s take care of it!” and is distinctly Butuanon. Butuan, a city in the northeastern Philippines, ...