SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- San Francisco has certified Tagalog as a third language that must be used in communicating essential city services, city officials announced Wednesday. Tagalog, the official ...

Tagalog courses may be introduced to Yale as early as the next academic year. KASAMA, Yale’s Filipinx club, whose name is translated from the Tagalog word meaning “together,” has advanced a proposal ...

Although Tagalog is the fourth most-spoken language in the United States, it is not one of over 25 languages offered at Brown. Through a petition launched in early February, the Filipino Alliance has ...

DE La Salle University (DLSU) is making a significant investment in the future of the Filipino language, as it calls on the nation’s youth to help preserve such. Recognizing that the many languages ...

It is easy to blame Manila for all of the country’s woes, from an uneven economy to problematic cultural representations. Manila has been called imperial, centralist, and hegemonic by the neglected ...

Growing up, there was always a debate about whether or not Bisaya was a language or a dialect. I distinctly remember one of my grade school teachers telling me that Bisaya is a dialect when I insisted ...

Danielle Colayco starts every day talking to her 5-year-old daughter, Audrey, in Tagalog. She greets her good morning, asks her some simple questions and tells her that she loves her. The ...

The UC Berkeley Filipino language program was awarded the Kampeon ng Wika award, or language champion award, by the Philippine national Commission on the Filipino Language for its contributions in ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has officially added the Tagalog word "gigil," which describes the intense urge to pinch or squeeze something overwhelmingly cute. This unique emotional response, ...

Editor’s Note: Emil Guillermo is a journalist and author. He writes for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and at www.amok.com. (CNN) – To the average American, the name Wilma Lamug ...