MANILA, Philippines — A comprehensive Filipino sign language handbook on health-related terms was developed by medical students from the University of the Philippines-Manila (UPM) to enhance ...

IN the Philippines, August is not shrugged off like the other months of the year. August is known for being "Buwan ng Wika" ...

According to the KWF, the country has 135 spoken languages, plus the Filipino Sign Language. Efforts to suspend the use of the regional or native language as a medium of instruction stemmed from ...

Adorned with simple pictures on them — a mother; two people hugging — they make the boxes look like oversized ...

Language and culture Filipino and English are the official languages of the Philippines — but the Philippines is an ethnically diverse country (and was a Spanish colony for 300 years), so more ...

According to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2021, there were over fifty thousand people learning the Filipino language in schools and educational institutions in the country.

Growing up in the slums of Manila, Manalo faced immense challenges The story of Filipino cop Julius Manalo, who took 31 years to find his Korean mother, serves as a testament to the power of ...

In a middle-class neighborhood, everyone spoke Tagalog. English was not a totally unfamiliar language, but nobody used it in everyday conversations in the community. My father was one of the better ...

STUDENTS strongly support the preservation and promotion of the Filipino language, a recent survey by De La Salle University's newly established language center Sentro sa Pagsasalin, ...

DE La Salle University (DLSU) is making a significant investment in the future of the Filipino language, as it calls on the nation’s youth to help preserve such. Recognizing that the many ...

The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines has reached nearly 130 and the president said Saturday that many areas ...