Losing Tagalog.(Opinion & Editorial)

Manila Bulletin | July 24, 2002 | Copyright

YOU will probably agree that we are not only forgetting English, we are also losing Tagalog. No, I am not a purist, though I must confess, I derive great pleasure in listening to those who can speak Tagalog in its romantic, classical form, like Senator Blas Ople.

We have all read somewhere that in 1938, during the American Commonwealth and largely due to the influence of President Manuel Quezon (a Tagalog), the government decreed the creation of a national language based on that dialect. Post-war Congress renamed the national language Pilipino (in 1973, ...

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