Celebrated every August, Buwan ng Wika honors our country’s culture and identity through our language. This year’s theme is “Wika ng Kasaysayan, Kasaysayan ng Wika,” which highlights the role of the ...

When I did K-12 in the last century, the commemoration of the national language only lasted a week. It was then known as “Linggo ng Wika.” In 1997, President Fidel V. Ramos extended it to cover the ...

The Philippines used to hold a week-long celebration, from August 13 to 19, every year, until President Ramos declared it should be month-long starting 1997 The latest ruling in terms of assigning a ...

When I was a child, a week on or around Aug. 19 was set aside to celebrate “Linggo ng Wika” (National Language Week), when we were encouraged to speak in Filipino and remember Manuel Luis Quezon as ...

The Buwan ng Kasaysayan and Buwan ng Wika revelries continue! The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) has pulled out all the stops to make the largest gathering of history and ...