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 ...

GRANDMOTHER speaks in the language she grew up with. Her grandchild understands some of what she says, but answers in English ...

DISCUSSIONS about language in the Philippines often center on advocacy — advocacy for linguistic diversity, for mother tongue education and for the development of Filipino as a national language ...

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 ...