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NOTES ON CEBUANO - BISAYAN ETHNIC IDENTITY

IN THE PHILIPPINE MULTILINGUALISM

Yoshihiro Kobari

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WEB -  INDEX

WEB-addresses (sub-domains) to each of all the single subject-pages on www.AboutPhilippines.ph

Philippines, government authorities etc.

read history - text (in Tagalog, Cebuano, English and many more languages) - music - music-notes

and with many links to videos with the anthem in e.g. Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilonggo & Butuanon

 Languages of the Philippines - Filipino - English - Tagalog - Cebuano - Hiligaynon (Ilonggo) and many more

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Quick Guide on How to Access Philippine eLib HERE

Your access to the most comprehensive libraries in the Philippines and the world.

Philippine Schools adopt regional languages

May 2012

is a volunteer, non-profit organization that has worked in the Philippines since 1953. In cooperation with the Philippines Department of Education, SIL members carry out linguistic research and documentation of Philippine indigenous languages

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• The Philippines Then and Now
• Filipinos Unique Traditions
• History of the Filipino Language
• Philippine Wedding Culture & Superstitions
• Philippine Fiestas & Holidays

The rise of Taglish, a new Filipino language based on combining Tagalog and English words, is impacting the Filipino society. Because it is neither English or Tagalog, it makes formal communication difficult. The purpose of this video series is to contribute toward strengthening the teaching of the formal and decent contemporary Tagalog language by presenting it in the context of respected Filipino custom and tradition. Look more details about the video HERE

Look MUCH MORE about Pasko - Christmas HERE

Filipino is the national language of the Philippines and, along with English, is an official language; designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution.

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alphabet and pronunciation

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is an Austronesian language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines. Capiznon is concentrated in the province of Capiz in the northeast of Panay Island.

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by Janina Abayari

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is a Visayan language spoken, along with the Asi and Onhan languages, in the province of Romblon. The language is also called Ini, Tiyad Ini, Basi, Niromblon, Sibuyanon, and Bisaya.

A Fragment of the Ilocano Lord's Prayer, 1620, including an Introduction of the 1621 Dotrina Cristiana.

By Amorita C. Rabuco, Ph. D.

Center for Kapampangan Studies

The language was spelled Capampañgan and is also called Pampango, and in the Kapampangan language: Amanung Sisuan, meaning "breastfed language".

Established in 2001, the Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies aims to sustain interest in the study of Kapampangan language, history and culture. It is housed in a three-story structure in Holy Angel University and contains a gallery, a museum and a library. The center subscribes to the motto "Be a good Kapampangan to be a better Filipino." The Kapampangans or Pampangos or are the sixth largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group.

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is an Austronesian language spoken by majority of the population of Maguindanao Province in the Philippines. It is also spoken by sizable minorities in different parts of Mindanao such as the cities of Zamboanga, Davao, and General Santos, and the provinces of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, as well as Metro Manila.

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Cuyonon, a language of Palawan province in the Philippines

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The ambahan is a literary product and poetic expression of the Southern Mangyans of Mindoro

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STUDIES IN PHILIPPINE LANGUAGES

Mamanwa texts

Supplementary Series No. 5 1991

By: Manuel Dulawan

also known as Ibatan is an Austronesian language spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands.

Purificacion G. Delima, PhD

Teresita D. Tajolosa
Palawan State University

Diacritical Marks in Romanized Kapampángan

by Michael Raymon M. Pangilinan

by Michael Raymon M. Pangilinan

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by Doray Espinosa

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Influence on the languages of the Philippines

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Contributions of Spanish Colonization in the Philippines

Instituto Cervantes is a worldwide non-profit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991.  It is the largest organization in the world dedicated to the teaching of the Spanish language.

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ICM Director Jose Rodriguez interviews DEPT. OF EDUCATION SEC. JESLI LAPUS for CERVANTES.TV.

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Jose "Pepe" Rodriguez, director of Instituto Cervantes in Manila, explains to reporters why the Spanish cultural center honored Philippine national hero Jose Rizal on his 150th birth anniversary. Rodriguez also encourages Filipinos to study the Spanish language, pointing out that it being the second most spoken language in the United States, which has the largest number of Filipino expatriates.

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a Spanish-based creole language spoken in the Philippines. It is the common name for the six dialects of what is formally known in Linguistics as Philippine Creole Spanish.

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The Spanish and Chabacano (Philippine Creole Spanish - PCS) Situation in the Philippines

Chabacano/Spanish and the Philippine linguistic identity

by John M. Lipski

The Pennsylvania State University

At Ateneo de Zamboanga, Philippines, some students introduce themselves speaking in chabacano a pidgin language of Spanish and Cebuano

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The Spanish language was the lingua franca of the country until early 1900. When Americans imposed English, Spanish was gradually lost, but now it is struggling to return it back to schools. Guillermo Gomez Rivera and Teresita Liboro show us how they speak the Cervantes' language today in the Philippines.

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Ama Namin, Tagalog version of Our Father in sign language, taken during a sunday mass in Quezon City

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Vodcast for EDUC 190

An art class, a terror teacher, a daunting task, and a hard-to-impress model. Expressing love using the natural languages of different countries may seem monotonous. But one thing that broke the idea that languages are all verbal was from a student assigned to do the Philippine's language - a signed language, which was Filipino Sign Language. Something that made a difference. Truly, actions speak louder than words.

Love Language is a video from the Advocacy Marketing Communications Campaign for DLS-CSB's Filipino Sign Language Program. This project was made possible by Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing community members of DLS-CSB.

This is a short Deaf Culture 101 explanation on how to say "excuse me" to deaf people chatting at hallways.

MCCID Filipino Sign Language Font (mccidfsl.ttf)

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A Traditional Form of Literacy

by/Brad D. Washington, MA

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Philippines Travel Tips – Understanding Filipino Body Language

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Learn about "Body" language - Learn how to flirt or know when a Filipina girl is flirting with you. I took a video that is an example showing one of the looks of Filipina girls in the Philippines.

A webcam conversation depicting several common Filipino non-verbal communication techniques.

These gestures are not homogenous. :) And yes, there are more...

irishpolyglot wrote on Jan 24, 2011: People who think that learning a foreign language involves mostly just vocabulary learning (or grammar) really don't understand the many levels of communication with foreign cultures that come into play. Reading different hand gestures and body language cues are one of these and something I discuss in today's video and blog post http://fi3m.com/gestures

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Baybayin aka Alibata is a pre-Filipino writing system from the islands called the "Philippines". Baybayin comes from the word "baybay", which literally means "spell". Alibata was a term mistakenly coined by Paul Versoza in the early 1900's when he wrongly thought the script was rooted in Arabic.

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is an ancient pre-Filipino writing system, it's member of the Brahmic family and closely related to the Baybayin script, Suwat bisaya is an Abugida or an alpha-syllabary writing system like most writing system used in South East Asia, where any consonant is pronounced with a vowel and using a diacritical mark to express other vowels. Learn more about The Bisaya script HERE

Learn how they form Suwat Bisaya out of 3 characters stroke patterns...

(Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala’wan)

Thomas N. Headland

Thirty Endangered Languages in the Philippines

Etc.

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170+ Talaytayan MLE is a consortium of education stakeholders from the University of the Philippines and Philippine Normal University. It also includes non-government organizations like Save the Children, NAKEM International, DILA Philippines, SIL and the Translators Association of the Philippines.

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The Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines:

Liturgy

Bibles - Blessings - Prayers - Prayer Book - Sacraments - Songs - Hymns etc. in Cebuano - Tagalog etc. languages