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1 day ago · In 1613, the Franciscan priest Pedro de San Buenaventura published the first Tagalog dictionary, his Vocabulario de la lengua tagala in Pila, Laguna. The first substantial dictionary of the Tagalog language was written by the Czech Jesuit missionary Pablo Clain in the beginning of the 18th century. Clain spoke Tagalog and used it actively in ...
May 9, 2024 · Asean news headlines as at 9pm on Wednesday (May 8) José Rizal (born June 19, 1861, Calamba, Philippines—died December 30, 1896, Manila) was a patriot, physician, and man of letters who was an inspiration to the Philippine nationalist movement. The son of a prosperous landowner, Rizal was educated in Manila and at the University of Madrid.
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May 23, 2024 · IF someone tries to “carnap” you, it’s understandable if you get “high-blood.” Along with 38 other Filipino terms, these two words were included in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its June 2015 update of the “definitive record of the English language.” The announcement of the inclusion, made on Thursday, June 25, marks the largest…
May 23, 2024 · While sometimes thought of as a branch of linguistics, the art of lexicography is properly considered a distinct field. Some are written by a single lexicographer, but many of the most respected and widely used examples today are the work of many individuals. The lexicographer has many considerations to keep in mind when writing a dictionary.
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May 23, 2024 · Representing the OED in the event were John Simpson, its former chief editor, who spoke about how Philippine vocabulary has been covered by earlier editions of the dictionary, and Danica Salazar, the dictionary’s World English Editor, who promised they would persist in diversifying the English language.
1 day ago · Father Chirino tells us one Jesuit who learned sufficient Tagalog in seventy days to preach and hear confession. In this way the Bisayan, the Tagalog, and the Ilokano were soon mastered. In the light of the opinion of Von Humboldt, it is interesting to find these early Spaniards pronouncing the Tagalog the most difficult and the most admirable.
1 day ago · Florante at Laura. Florante at Laura is a Philippine literature classic written in the nineteenth century by Francisco Baltazar (1788-1862), better known by his pen name Balagtas. It is a romance in Tagalog verse.
