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  1. Nov 1, 2008 · This chapter considers a range of issues related to the study of Philippine English vocabulary, including the importance of dictionaries in the legitimation of world Englishes, the description...

  2. Filipino lexicography deals with two problems related to the linguistic features of the language: the lexicon and the grammatical features including orthography. This paper analyzes how the Diksyunaryong Monolingwal sa Filipino (DMF) copes with these issues.

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  3. The linguistic and cultural diversity in the Philippines brings much complexity to the issue of language policy in education. With more than 7000 islands and 181 distinct languages (Lewis, Simons, & Fennig, 2013), the Philippines offers a challenging environment for implementing a language policy that can serve the whole country.

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  4. The paper indicates that the processes for expanding the Philippine English lexicon are enhanced by borrowing certain function and content words from Tagalog which appear repeatedly in Tagalog-English code-switching.

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  5. Mar 29, 2022 · features. The vowel inventory of Tagalog is three vowels in native words and five vowels in Spanish words. Meanwhile, Tagalog has either CV or CVC syllabic structure (Potet, 1995). In addition, according to Collins (2014), most Tagalog words are bisyllabic followed by trisyllabic most- common words.

  6. The alternation of Tagalog and English in informal discourse is a feature of the linguistic repertoire of educated, middle- and upper-class Filipinos. This paper describes the linguistic structure and sociolinguistic functions of Tagalog-English code switching (Taglish) as provided by various researchers through the years.

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  8. Jan 4, 2017 · But why Tagalog and not any other Philippine language? As shown in the work of Tinio ( 2009 ), Tagalog throughout the country’s colonial history with Spain and the United States enjoyed a literary and an anti-colonial tradition, and this argument supposedly proved useful in justifying calls for it to be the national language of the Philippines.

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