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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
Tagalog Literature: History and Tradition
Tagalog Literature: History and Tradition
Tagalog literature has been born, cradled, nourished and peaked into fruition in the provinces of Southern Luzon, Central Luzon and the present Metropolitan Manila or the National Capital Region.
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Published at 2020-09-18 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary, History
Tags: History, Literature, Tagalog, Tradition
Why the F in ‘Filipino’ and How Did It Get There?
Why the F in ‘Filipino’ and How Did It Get There?
"Purist” Tagalog speakers, the superannuated academic, and sometimes the man on the street, will all insist that the letter F does not exist in the Tagalog language. One can never hear it, they say, in everyday speech. On the other hand, the same speakers whose parents were more or less educated in the old Hispanized orthography, or later in American English, do in fact use the letter F in pronouncing surnames like Fernandez or first names like Fidel.
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Published at 2019-08-08 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Education, Humor
Tags: Filipino, Tagalog, language
Tagalog
Tagalog
The Tagalogs are one of the largest and most dominant ethnic groups in the country. Most Tagalogs live outside the National Capital Region, in the provinces of Nueva Ecija, Batangas, Quezon, Cavite, Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna, Tarlac, Zambales, Marinduque, Bataan, and Aurora. Significant Tagalog populations are also found in Mindoro and Palawan. The vast majority are followers of Christianity, most of whom are Roman Catholics.
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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Ethnography, Tagalog
Top 10 Languages Used in the Philippines
Top 10 Languages Used in the Philippines
I used to think that the only language we have here in the Philippines is Filipino. It may be our national language, but there are actually more languages here in our country than we know. Because there are more than seven thousand islands in the Philippines, it is no wonder why we have many languages which most of us consider as dialects. There is a difference between dialect and language, though. According to Dictionary.com, a language is used by people who are of the same community or nation.
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Published at 2018-01-04 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Culture, Documentary, Society
Tags: Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Tagalog
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