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2 days ago · Diariong Tagalog (Tagalog Newspaper), the first bilingual newspaper in the Philippines founded in 1882 written in both Tagalog and Spanish. Tagalog was declared the official language by the first revolutionary constitution in the Philippines, the Constitution of Biak-na-Bato in 1897.
4 days ago · Philippines, island country of Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. It is an archipelago consisting of more than 7,000 islands and islets lying about 500 miles (800 km) off the coast of Vietnam. Manila is the capital, but nearby Quezon City is the country’s most-populous city.
5 days ago · Key Takeaways: The Philippines is a linguistically diverse country, with approximately 130 to 195 languages spoken. The official languages are Filipino and English, with Filipino being a standardized version of Tagalog. Tagalog and Cebuano are the most widely spoken native languages in the Philippines.
1 day ago · The dictionary entry resulted in confusion, backlash and ridicule from Filipinos residing in the Philippines who never identified themselves with the foreign term. Native Filipinos were also called Manilamen (or Manila men) by English-speaking regions or Tagalas by Spanish-speakers during the colonial era. They were mostly sailors and pearl ...
2 days ago · History of the Philippines. The history of the Philippines dates from the earliest hominin activity in the archipelago at least by 709,000 years ago. [1] Homo luzonensis, a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon [2] [3] at least by 134,000 years ago.
5 days ago · The groom and... More. Philippines Facts. What is the capital of Philippines? Philippines Demographics. What is the population of Philippines? Philippines Government. What type of government does Philippines have?
3 days ago · Before the Spanish arrived in the Philippines in the 16th century, the people of the islands used a writing script called baybayin. It was the Spaniards who introduced Western letters to the Philippines. In the 1930s, the renowned scholar Lope K. Santos developed the abakada which is an alphabet representing the sounds in the Tagalog language.
