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5 hours ago · Tagalog is a major language from the Philippines that many people speak in the United States. The US Census Bureau reports that around 1.5 million people speak Tagalog at home. This makes it the fourth most common language spoken in American homes. In big cities, Tagalog is especially popular.
5 hours ago · Christiane Stefanski, 74, Belgian folk singer; 7. Steve Albini, 61, American post-hardcore and noise rock singer and guitarist (Big Black, Shellac) and record producer; Ignatius Jones, 66–67, Australian-Filipino new wave and swing singer (Jimmy and the Boys, Pardon Me Boys)
5 hours ago · In remote districts their katakashira off-center topknot, similar to that of the Yami and some Filipino ethnic groups, among men and women also disappeared in the early 20th century. The bashôfu, literally meaning "banana-fibre cloth", is designated as a part of Ryukyu and Japan "important intangible cultural properties". The weaving using ...
1 day ago · The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani ( / ˈroʊməni / ROH-mə-nee or / ˈrɒməni / ROM-ə-nee) and colloquially known as the Roma ( sg.: Rom ), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin [71] [72] [73] who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Romani originated in the Indian ...
5 hours ago · t. e. Champa ( Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ; Khmer: ចាម្ប៉ា; Vietnamese: Chiêm Thành 占城 or Chăm Pa 占婆) was a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd century CE until 1832.
5 hours ago · History Main article: History of Nintendo 1889–1972: Early history 1889–1932: Origin as a playing card business Original Nintendo headquarters (1889–1930) and workshop in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, c. 1889. The right section was eventually rebuilt (pictured below), and the left section was reportedly demolished in 2004. Nintendo karuta poster from the Meiji era Nintendo was founded as Nintendo ...
1 day ago · Classification Main article: Nahuan languages Tree diagram of the relation between the Nahuan languages and the rest of the Uto-Aztecan language family, based on the internal classification of Nahuan given by Terrence Kaufman (2001) As a language label, the term Nahuatl encompasses a group of closely related languages or divergent dialects within the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language ...
