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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

THE PBA played OPM music during game breaks of Game Four of the Commissioner’s Cup finals on Sunday night to join in the commemoration of Buwan ng Wika. It turned out to be a fitting backdrop to ...

The Komisyon sa Wikang or the Commission on the Filipino Language (KWF), headed by its chairman, National Artist for literature Virgilio Almario, has lineup several activities to celebrate the Buwan ...

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 ...