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The Commonwealth of the Philippines ( Spanish: Commonwealth de Filipinas, [1] [3] Tagalog: Komonwelt ng Pilipinas) was the name of the Philippines from 1935 to 1946 when it was still controlled by the United States. The Philippine Commonwealth had been created by the Tydings-McDuffie Act, which was approved by the U.S. Congress in 1934.
Ogilvie-Grant, 1896. Range in blue. The Philippine eagle ( Pithecophaga jefferyi ), also known as the monkey-eating eagle or great Philippine eagle, is a critically endangered species of eagle of the family Accipitridae which is endemic to forests in the Philippines. It has brown and white-colored plumage, a shaggy crest, and generally measures ...
The most spoken regional languages in the country aside from Tagalog are Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinense, Maguindanaoan, Maranao, and Tausug . The indigenous scripts of the Philippines (such as the Kulitan, Tagbanwa and others) are used very little; instead, Philippine languages are today written in the ...
Philippine English uses practice and license for both nouns and verbs, following American English, rather than licence for the second noun and practise for the first verb as in Commonwealth English. Philippine English prefers spellings with silent e in some words such as acknowled ge ment , jud ge ment and lo ve able , as opposed to acknowled g ...
Tree. Philippines portal. v. t. e. Philippine literature in English has its roots in the efforts of the United States, then engaged in a war with Filipino nationalist forces at the end of the 19th century. By 1901, public education was institutionalized in the Philippines, with English serving as the medium of instruction.
1968 Casiguran earthquake. 1970 in the Philippines. 1972 in Philippine television. 1972 in the Philippines. 1975 FAMAS Awards. 1975 in Philippine television. 1975 Metro Manila Film Festival. 1975 PBA season. 1975 Philippine executive and legislative powers referendum.
Except for English, Spanish, Chavacano and varieties of Chinese ( Hokkien, Cantonese and Mandarin ), all of the languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. The following are the four Philippine languages with more than five million native speakers: [44] Tagalog. Cebuano.
