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Trivia.

. Tagalog and Filipino are not the same language.

A lot of people think the Filipino language is the same as Tagalog, but they are different from
each other. Filipino is spoken nationwide while Tagalog is used mostly in Central Luzon.

2. Regional languages are not dialects.

For most people, there might be confusion on calling a regional language (Kapampangan,
Sebwano, Waray, Chavacano, et cetera) a dialect. Although Filipino is the Philippines national
language, other languages spoken in different regions of the country are still considered wika ng
Filipinas.

Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino's (KWF) Education and Networking Division, Officer-in-charge


John Torralba describes dialect as a variety of a language.

Iyang mga wika na yan, maraming lugar ang gumagamit niyan, [at] bawat paraan ng paggamit
nila, yun ang diyalekto ng [isang wika].

3. The Philippines has 130 languages

Philippine languages are so diverse and complex that a recent study by the KWF shows that the
country has 130 native languages that are being used todayexcluding the dialects borne from
each language. Although Filipino is the countrys official and national language, it is only a part
of the wikang Filipinas.

4. A foreigner pushed for the establishment of a native national language.

Najeeb Saleeby, a Lebanese naturalized American citizen serving the U.S to teach self-
government to the Filipinos, opposed the continued use of English as the countrys language of
instruction and insisted a national language based on a native language.

He also asserted that Tagalog has more advantage than other native languages as a basis for the
national language of the country.

Its linguistic pre-eminence and its relation to the national capital, and to the Philippine heroes,
supports this claim, Saleeby stated in 1924.

Other regional delegates, however, heavily opposed this, maintaining English and Spanish as the
official languages until the KWF (formerly known as Institute of National Language) chose
Tagalog in 1937 as former President Manuel Quezon proclaimed it.

5. The Filipino language is a Filipinos identity.


Philippines may have been heavily influenced by imperial powers, which resulted to the nations
mix, or even loss, of identity.

But according to Torralba, the Filipino language, no matter how many languages are taught to us,
is a manifestation of our unique identity.

Ang isang hindi nabura ay yung wika kasi katutubo sa atin [yan], he said.

Setyembre ika-23, 1955 nagpasa si Pang. Ramon Magsaysay ng Proklamasyon Bilang 186 na
nagbabago ng petsa ng pagdiriwang ng Linggo ng Wika sa Agosto ika 13-19 upang parangalan
ang kaarawan ng Pangulong Manuel L. Quezon (ama ng Wikang Pambansa) at para mapagtibay
ito, nagpasa si Pangulong Fidel V. Ramos ng Proklamasyon Bilang 1041 na nagpapahayag na
ang buong buwan ng Agosto ay Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa.

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