Before using the current alphabet that has 28 letters, the Philippines had 4 sets of letters since the pre-colonial times MANILA, Philippines – Like many nations colonized by westerners, the ...

VIRGILIO S. Almario, National Artist for Literature; Marlon Delupio, winner of 1st Gawad Julian Cruz Balmaseda, with Almario PHOTOS BY ROMY HOMILLADA MANILA, Philippines—The National language is once ...

A sociolinguist, Dr Loy Lising, has woven the reasons why some Filipinos struggle to pronounce certain letters in words and why we should embrace our own language. Sociolinguist Loy Lising explained ...

CEBU, Philippines - Filipinos have since been taught that their ancient alphabet was “Alibata.” This may no longer be the case. Literary historian Virgilio “Rio Alma” Almario said that unlike what has ...

MANILA, Philippines - One of the 13 nominated words will be chosen as word of the year at Sawikaan 2014 on Friday. Among the nominees are "hashtag", "imba", "selfie" and "peg". The nominated words ...