MANILA, Philippines — Every August, the Philippines celebrates Buwan ng Wika, or Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa (National Language Month). A month-long celebration, it promotes the importance of ...

Signed by President Fidel Ramos in 1997, the proclamation sets a Buwan ng Wika celebration every August. This celebration is to coincide with the birth anniversary of former President Manuel ...

Our observance of Buwan ng Wika often refers to spoken language and not the written language but it shouldn’t be this way, if only to help preserve our heritage and to help younger generations ...

And Buwan ng Wika would have made for a good rallying point. More than 80 years since President Quezon declared two national languages that were not Cebuano, so many among us here in Agusan still bear ...

Not long ago, you were just a kid in school reciting poems and dancing to folk songs for the Buwan ng Wika celebration. You wore a traditional Filipino attire like Filipiniana, baro’t saya ...

Today marks the start of the country’s celebration of Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa ... This year’s theme is “Filipino at mga Katutubong Wika: Kasangkapan sa Pagtuklas at Paglikha.” ...

Linggo ng Wika is no more; it has been expanded to a monthlong celebration now known to all schoolchildren as Buwan ng Wika. What replaced the former Linggo ng Wika, by order of then President Fidel V ...

August is Buwan ng Wika and Fully Booked is highlighting Filipino books and authors with a month-long event called Filipino Reads Fest. The month-long celebration will feature virtual talks with ...

As the nation celebrates Buwan ng Wika, it brings to mind how every generation introduces new vernacular and colloquialisms to casual speech. In this age of texting punctuated by emojis, the ...