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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 the purists coining words like salumpuwit (chair), salimpapaw (airplane), sipnayan (mathematics), etc.
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Philippine languages were among the first languages in Asia to be the subject of western linguistic study3, as a number of Spanish friar-linguists began the documentation and description 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 N...
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1. Tagalog. 2. Cebuano. 3. Ilocano. 4. Hiligaynon. 5. Bicol. 6. Samar-Leyte Bisayan. 7. Pampango. 8. Pangasinan. 99.22 % The need for a common language by which the inhabitants of the archipelago could communicate with one another, whether socially or politically, had long been felt, consciously or unconsciously.
Filipino, which is Tagalog-based and has been selected to be the national language of the Philippines since the l987 Constitution of the country, belongs to the Central Philippine branch of the Philippine language tree (see Dyen 1965, Zorc 1977, McFarland 1981), while Kapampangan belongs to the Northern group of Philippine languages.
Jun 30, 1999 · 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. Even though English is no longer the official language of the Philippines, it continues to be taught today along with Tagalog in the public schools.
It was declared the basis for the national language in 1937 by then President of the Commonwealth Republic, Manuel L. Quezon and it was renamed Pilipino in 1959.
On November 13, 1937, the First National Assembly approved a law “creating a National Language Institute” that will make a study on the various dialects used in country. On December 31, 1937 President Manuel L. Quezon proclaimed “Tagalog” as the National Language of the Philippines.
