Gigil is a Tagalog word that was recently added to the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the most comprehensive dictionaries in the English-speaking world. PHOTO/S: Canva Isa na namang Filipino word ...

(Editor’s Note: In the fourth week of “Buwan ng Wika” last month, an Ateneo senior wrote that Filipino was the language of the streets and that English was the language of learning and privilege.

MANILA, Philippines – A group of college professors introduced on Saturday, June 21, Tanggol Wika – an alliance of educators from more than 40 colleges and universities in the country opposed to ...

Five new literary translations were launched on August 23 as part of the month-long 25th anniversary celebration of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF). The writers and scholars who worked on this ...

'As adolescents, my brother and I grew up in a household where we were forbidden from speaking our native language around and to our baby sister' Besides with my Filipino mother and my brother, I ...