MANILA, Philippines — Every year, the Philippines celebrates Buwan ng Wika to promote and uphold Filipino as the country’s national language. But the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) is also working ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claims that the term "Filipino" is not a language and solely refers to the identity and/or nationality of citizens of the Republic ...

MANILA, Philippines— Filipino, as the national language, should not be taken for granted as technology and artificial ...

In October 2024, the Philippine government, in its management of a linguistically rich and culturally diverse population, decided to make the then-existing Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education ...

AS LARGE language models (LLM) continue to be trained with Western biases, the gap between cultural context and linguistic ...

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, ...

Vice President Sara Duterte emphasized the importance of preserving and promoting the Filipino language amid advances in ...

THE Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) has faced withering public criticism after it gave six of its own commissioners the "Kampeon ng Wika" award. Announced on Aug. 18, 2026, this board decision has ...

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 ...

As a child in the Philippines during the 1970s, Joi Barrios-Leblanc remembers singing songs that glorified the country's president Ferdinand Marcos, and his U.S-backed regime of martial law that ...

As Buwan ng Wika marks its annual tribute to Filipino languages and culture, I find myself wanting to offer my own tribute as my term as Ambassador of Japan in the Philippines comes to a close. Two ...