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2 days ago · The Cinema of the Philippines ( Filipino: Pelikulang Pilipino; Spanish: Cine Filipino) began with the introduction of the first moving pictures to the country on August 31, 1897, at the Salón de Pertierra in Manila. The following year, local scenes were shot on film for the first time by a Spaniard, Antonio Ramos, using the Lumiere ...
May 5, 2024 · Marshallese, a Micronesian language, is a member of the Eastern Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages. [5] The closest linguistic relatives of Marshallese are the other Micronesian languages, including Gilbertese, Nauruan, Pohnpeian, Mokilese, Chuukese, Refaluwash, and Kosraean. Marshallese shows 50% lexical similarity with Gilbertese ...
1 day ago · Languages of the Austronesian family are today spoken by about 386 million people (4.9% of the global population), making it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers. Major Austronesian languages include Malay (around 250–270 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard, named Indonesian), Javanese, and Filipino ...
5 days ago · Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga [1] was born on February 22, 1971 [2] to Ligaya ( née Imutan) (b. 1937) and Feliciano Genuino Salonga (1929–2016). [3] [4] She has a younger brother named Gerard. [5] At age three, she was trained by her aunt in singing. [6] [7] At age seven, she and her family relocated from Pampanga to Manila.
4 days ago · e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
1 day ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
May 1, 2024 · National language in Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian) ... Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian) Tagalog:
