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Top 25 Most Spoken Languages in the World 2024
Top 25 Most Spoken Languages in the World 2024
English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi stand out as the world’s most spoken languages, with approximately 1.5 billion, 1.1 billion, and 610 million speakers worldwide. These languages are not only widely spoken but are also experiencing rapid growth.
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Published at 2024-03-12 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, People
Tags: Chinese, English, English language, Tagalog, language
Speaking in Tongues: How Storytelling Shapes Philippine Languages
Speaking in Tongues: How Storytelling Shapes Philippine Languages
'People contextualize their language when they tell a story'
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Published at 2018-08-27 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Culture, Opinion
Tags: English, English language, Filipino, culture
What Languages Are Spoken in the Philippines?
What Languages Are Spoken in the Philippines?
The language of the Philippines was originally written in the Baybayin script, which in turn is similar to those used in Java, Bali and Sumatra. (For those not so familiar with these languages, they date back to the Brahmi inscriptions in India in the third century BC). Today, the Latin alphabet has replaced the previous one and is the means by which we write Tagalog, the common name for the language of the Philippines, although not exactly the same since Filipino is a variant of Tagalog.
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Published at 2018-01-09 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Culture, Education
Tags: Baybayin, English language, Tagalog, language
Philippine Literature in English
Philippine Literature in English
Philippine Literature in English has its roots in the efforts of the American forces at the turn of the century to pacify the Filipino people and instill in them the American ideals of “universality, practicality, and democracy.” By 1901, public education was institutionalized, with English serving as the medium of instruction. Around 600 educators who arrived in that year aboard the S.S. Thomas replaced the soldiers who also functioned as teachers.
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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary
Tags: American, English language, Literature