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In 1959, the Department of Education called the Tagalog-based national language Pilipino. In 1965, some congressmen took the cudgels against the propagation of Pilipino, which to them is puristang Tagalog, as the national language. This period witnessed.
of several of these languages in the first decades of the Spanish occupation of the Philippines, including Tagalog (San Augustin 1703, San Joseph 1752), Bikol Naga (Lisboa 1865), Waray-Waray and Cebuano (Sanchez 1711, Ezguerra 1747), and Ilonggo/Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a
In the 1972 Constitution, Pilipino and English are declared as the official languages, and Filipino, as the new national language to be developed from the contributions of all the languages spoken in the Philippines.
Jun 30, 1999 · It was part of the agreement of American occupation that in 1946, the Philippines would become independent of the US again. At that time, Tagalog became the official language of the Philippines, this change having been decided about ten years later and having begun already to be implemented in the educational system.
constitution for the Philippines have time and again decided that a language called Pilipino (to comply with the phonemes of Tagalog) was to be adopted as the national language. As was clear from the very start, it was nothing else but one of the existing languages, viz., Tagalog pure and simple, except that in the hands of the
Filipino, the national lingua franca of the Philippines, is perceived as the Metro Manila Tagalog which has pervaded the entire country through media, local movies, and educational institutions. … Expand
In 1959, the Department of Education called the Tagalog-based national language Pilipino. In 1965, some congressmen took the cudgels against the propagation of Pilipino, which to them is puristang Tagalog (Tagalog purist), as the national language.
