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 ...

가, 나, 다. I learned the first set of letter combinations in the Korean alphabet when I first started studying Korean. Back in college, I was one of the lucky students who were given the opportunity to ...

Asians are often puzzled by Asian-Americans. It's as if the Asian, seeing an Asian-American, says to himself: "You look like me but you don't talk like me and you certainly don't think like me." As ...

Editor’s Note: Emil Guillermo is a journalist and author. He writes for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and at www.amok.com. (CNN) – To the average American, the name Wilma Lamug ...

In our pursuit to develop and promote the use of a ‘national language,’ we should ask ourselves if we are simply trying hard to create a forced Filipino identity by speaking a forged language In ...

Leading the efforts to support and increase the reach of communication globally and locally, Microsoft Translator announces the addition of Filipino together with five other Austronesian languages, ...

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, ...

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, ...

LAST year, around New Year’s Day, I drew up a language and linguistics agenda for the Philippines for 2025. I thought of making it a tradition in my column, and so I write one for this year again. But ...