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	Languages of the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the teaching of the national language in schools began in 1940, Tagalog was not made an official language until the restoration of its independence on July 4, 1946.
		Spanish ceased to be an official language in 1973 and a college requirement in 1987 during the Aquino administration.
		The Lan-nang variant of the Min Nan is the language of the majority the Chinese in the Philippines, who immigrated from the Fujian (pronounced locally as Fookien or Hokkien) province in China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Languages_of_the_Philippines (2426 words)

	Bikol language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For other, related languages also called Bikol, see Bikol languages.
		Bikol or Bicolano is an Austronesian language used in the Philippines particularly on the Bicol Peninsula on the island of Luzon.
		Bicol-Naga is the standard language of this kind.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bikol_language (91 words)

	Language Reference Page
		The current languages are mostly those used for my doctoral work, but I intend to continue adding languages as I have time and as I find good sources of text in electronic form.
		AngloSaxon is an Indo-European, Germanic language, (one of) the ancestor(s) of Modern English.
		Bikol is spoken in the Phillipines by about 4,000,000 speakers using various dialects.
	complingone.georgetown.edu /~langid/ref_langs.html (2141 words)

	Bikol: Books and other materials from Bicolandia
		For the first time ever, two linguists have come together to write a book about the Bikol language which can be used by Bikolanos to learn more about their language.
		Not only ideal for teachers and students of the Bikol language, this textbook/reference book is also recommended for anybody interested in learning more about the beautiful Bikol language.
		The first Bikol Literature book of the new millennium, this anthology concentrates on the long-forgotten Bikol literature of the first half of the 20th century.
	home.san.rr.com /bikol (504 words)

	Gibon: Ateneo de Naga University Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The germ idea for the establishment of an Institute of Bikol History and Culture (IBHC) was drawn from the experiences of the PNHS itself, when it began holding its First National Conference on Local and National History at Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City in 1978.
		Given the nature also of the Bikol region, which is often hit by destructive typhoons and perennial flooding, the chances of preserving valuable documents is greatly hampered or diminished.
		This is where the writing of Bikol history has been weak—the materials are there, they exist, but they are scattered in various repositories in Manila or abroad and in the 107 municpalities and seven cities all over the region.
	external.adnu.edu.ph /Gibon/Vol2Nov2-02/vol2nov2-02-E.asp (5617 words)

	The Claveria Heritage > Features > Our Buhi Language by Benjamin .A.Claveria
		As a pupil in the first school organized by the Americans in Buhi, my mother, then already a fluent reader of Bikol and Spanish, was asked by her teacher, a U.S. Army soldier to read the words leaf and leaves.
		Some languages are highly phonetic, you pronounce the words the way they are written as in Spanish, Italian and Latin.
		But for the sake of those who may not know Buhinon well enough, each song is set down first in Naga or standard Bikol, second in English, and the third in Buhinon, and I have numbered the stanzas.
	members.tripod.com /~buhiclaveria/language.htm (1080 words)

	Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		More than 170 languages are spoken in the country, almost all of them belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian language group of the Austronesian language family.
		The twelve major regional languages are auxiliary languages of their respective regions, each with over one million speakers: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Waray-Waray, Bikol, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Kinaray-a, Maranao, Maguindanao, and Tausug.
		The use of Spanish in the Philippines as the original official language of the country has declined, only a small proportion of the population speaks it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philippines (3800 words)

	languages
		The languages of Romblon, as well as all languages native to the Philippines, belong to the Austronesian language family, which includes languages spoken in China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and 25 other countries in insular and mainland Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.
		All of the languages of the Philippines except Samalan (Blust 1991) are classified as Philippine languages under the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian.
		It is important to remember that, although linguists subgroup languages by shared similarities and differences in order to discover the historical relationships between these languages, each language may also have similarities to languages from other groups, especially when two languages have been used in close proximity to one another.
	quicksitemaker.com /members/merano/language.html (3822 words)

	Meet the Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He is also the co-author of the book An Satuyang Tataramon: A Study of the Bikol Language and the compiler of the Bikol CD-Rom Reference Set.
		She has been involved with several projects on the Bikol language, including Bikol Phrasebook, Rinconada Phrasebook and Bikol Literature Anthology Volume One.
		A non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the Bikol language and culture with multimedia publications which contribute to the awareness & appreciation of Bikolandia by both Bikolanos and non-Bikolanos alike.
	home.san.rr.com /bikol/meet.html (265 words)

	We are a non-profit organization
		The second volume in our Bikol Literature Anthology series offers more long out-of-print poetry and short stories from the 1940s and 1950s, along with a new section highlighting some of the classic Bikol-language comic strips of the era.
		This Philippine Travel Phrase Book is a three-way tool translating between English and the Philippines’ two most widely spoken and understood languages, Tagalog (the Philippine National Language) and Cebuano (the lingua franca of the Bisayas and Mindanao).
		This dictionary by renowned Kapampangan poet Ernesto Turla was compiled with the goal of preserving and propagating the Kapampangan language, as well as introducing the language to foreigners.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~lobel/index.html (762 words)

	Overview of the Tagalog Language to Help You Learn Tagalog
		Tagalog (ta-GA-log) is the national language of the Republic of the Philippines.
		Tagalog was selected as the national language of the Philippines in 1946 because it had a rich literary tradition, it was the most widely spoken language in the Republic, and it was considered the language of the revolution against colonialism.
		Tagalog is a phonetic language and the letters and letter combinations virtually always have the same pronunciation.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/tagalog/overview.htm (650 words)

	UHMTueSemF2003
		The Rinconada dialect of the Southern Bikol language is one of only a handful of Philipppine languages that shows evidence of having lost contrastive stress at some point in its history, and it is one of only two (along with Northern Philippine language Pangasinan) that has subsequently redeveloped contrastive stress.
		For some of these languages non-color adjectives are also reduplicated, although this usually is an active process, and where it is not active it occurs with markedly lower frequency than reduplication in color terms.
		The Language Analysis and Experimentation Labs (LAE Labs) are a research and teaching facility dedicated to human language and the cognitive mechanisms responsible for it.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /UHMTueSem/TuesdayF2003/UHMTueSemF2003.html (2680 words)

	SAVE OUR LANGUAGES THROUGH FEDERALIZATION - Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Likewise, almost any Philippine language is intrinsically easier to learn for a non-native speaker than any Chinese language because of the tonal characteristic of Chinese languages, wherein differences in pitch distinguishes different meanings in what are otherwise the same words.
		Many of these languages do not even have a written literature, and are not used in government and schools in their own territories.
		Many such native languages in North America, as well as Hawaii, are now being taught in the schools, and as a result their native speakers are fast increasing in numbers.
	maxpages.com /defender/solfed - !http://maxpages.com/defender/solfed (2855 words)

	Vers Libre by Jose Jason L. Chancoco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first newspaper in the Bikol language was An Parabareta by Mariano Perfecto in 1899, and it ran only for more than a year.
		And contemporary Bikol writers reclaimed osipon as a term for short-fiction in lieu of istorya.
		In Bikol, for instance, one may gather samples of folk literature according to genre and epochal representation and analyze their form and content using as much as possible, local literary theories.
	www.dalityapi.com /makata/vers_libre_09012005.html (977 words)

	Salita Blog: June 2004
		All of the languages indigenous to the area belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
		Anyway, there are a total of four main languages spoken in the Bicol region.
		The language certainly "felt" Visayan, but it was quite different from Hiligaynon, another language I've been exposed to which is spoken on Panay.
	salitablog.blogspot.com /2004_06_01_salitablog_archive.html (3231 words)

	Philippine Linguistics
		The Philippine language with the most native speakers, spoken in the Central Visayas and Northern Mindanao.
		Bikol links (a language of Southern Luzon, closely related to Tagalog and Waray)
		(a language spoken north of Manila, south of the Pangasinan and Ilocano region which is known for its delicious food).
	iloko.tripod.com /linguist.html (290 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:BKL
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		2,500,000 about 7% of the population speak Bikol languages; 3,519,236 all Bikol languages (1990 census).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=BKL (75 words)

	Languagelinks.org - Professional Profile of Jessie Grace U. Rubrico
		President, University of the Philippines-Church of the Risen Lord Choir, 1997 to 2002.
		For: Speech Research: Languages of the World Bellcore (Room 1A-228R, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960 USA) September 1998 to 1999.
		Murray Speigel as field researcher in the translation of the English text used during the Jewish Passover ritual to Cebuano Tagalog, Ilokano, Bikol Albay, Bikol Naga, Romblomanon, Kapampangan, Waray, Kinaray-a, Sambal.
	www.languagelinks.org /about_jessie.html (927 words)

	Bikol language and culture
		FROM WIKIPEDIA Bicolano or Bikol is an Austronesian language used in the Philippines particularly on the Bicol Peninsula on the island of Luzon.
		Old Bikol Songs by Judge Benjamin A. Claveria (ret.) The first song, "Si Nanay, Si Tatay" is probably the best known Bikol song.
		The HOLY ROSARY MAJOR SEMINARY is the center of theological studies and formation in the ecclesiastical province of Cáceres, comprising the Archdiocese of Cáceres, the dioceses of Daet, Legazpi, Masbate, Sorsogon...
	www.lonweb.org /link-bikol.htm (555 words)

	Language Translation Services
		Bikol translation team is built from professional linguists, who use their mother tongue exclusively as a target language.
		Our Bikol translators NEVER work into their second language.
		They have deep understanding of the subject area and are highly cultured in Bikol language and English with respect of spelling, grammar, and idiomatic expressiveness.
	www.academyoftranslation.com /Languages/Language-Page-Bikol.asp (172 words)

	Nung language resources
		...are a subgroup of the Tai Kadai language family.
		An Satuyang Tataramon: A Study of the Bikol language, Lobel and Tria Partnership Co..
		Language English Language {{{language}}} Budget $31,500,000 PrecededÂ by {{{preceded_by}}} FollowedÂ by...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Nung.html (1349 words)

	Top20Languages.com - Online Directory for Languages.
		Language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration.
		Estimates for the world's top 20 languages (given in millions) on the basis of the number of mother-tongue (first-language) speakers and population estimates for those countries where the language has official status.
		This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural languages spoken or signed by humans.
	www.top20languages.com (1041 words)

	Bikol Referensi,
		One of the Austronesian languages, Biko is the major language of the Philipine provinces of Southern Luzon.
		It is closely related to Tagalog - the de facto national language, spoken to the north and to the Bisayan dialects of the Visayas islands to the south.
		The language name can be spelt as Bikol, Bicol, or Vicol.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Indonesian/Languages/Bikol.htm (99 words)

	Languagelinks.org - Professional Profile of Jessie Grace U. Rubrico
		Cyberspace Language Tutor for Cebuano from 1997 to Present to Learners from Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia and other parts of Asia
		Professional Lecturer, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City on linguistics and grammars of Philippine languages at the Depertment of Filipino
		Born 25 December 1953; married to Ildefonso J. Rubrico, President of Language Links Foundation, Incorporated, with whom she has three grown-up children, Jose Ildefonso, a doctoral student in Precision Engineerign at the Tokyo University (Tokjo, Japan) on a Mombusho scholarship; Jennee Grace, a Senior Reporter ar BusinessWorld;and Jonathan Marn, a licensed Electronics and Communications Engineer.
	www.languagelinks.org /oldsite/author.html (349 words)

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		A historical narrative of a young Filipina's life during the Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II.
		The hard "c" is "k" in Tagalog The soft "c" is "s" in Tagalog The letter "f" is "p" in Tagalog The letter "q" is "k" in Tagalog The letter "v" is "b" in Tagalog --------------------------------------- LANGUAGE SOFTWARE UPDATES: We have started on a major revision of the language software.
		We intended to release an update of the Ilocano software already, but decided to incorporate it into the new version of the software when it is completed.
	www.idir.net /~jim.dex/message.17 (384 words)

	MARC Language Codes
		This is an ASCII list of all valid and obsolete language codes assigned for use in MARC 21 records.
		It is intended to meet the need for a simple list to support MARC system development and online validation of MARC codes.
		MARC Code List for Languages ___________________________ aar Afar abk Abkhaz ace Achinese ach Acoli ada Adangme afa Afroasiatic (Other) afh Afrihili (Artificial language) afr Afrikaans -ajm Aljamía aka Akan akk Akkadian alb Albanian ale Aleut alg Algonquian (Other) amh Amharic ang English, Old (ca.
	www.loc.gov /marc/languages/la2000list.html (204 words)

	Amazon.com: Bikol-English Dictionary: Diksionariong Bikol-Ingles: Books: Malcolm Warren Mintz,Jose Del Rosario Britanico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There are so few resources for learning Bikol (or Bicol), and the ones that are out there are of the "phrasebook genre." But this one is one of the best out there.
		This is perfect for those who want to a reference of the language of the Bicol peninsula of the Philippines.
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	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9711002124?v=glance (426 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bikol language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bikol language
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Bikol language" at HighBeam.
		A national language is neither dictated by history nor bigots.(Opinion & Editorial)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Bikol+language (144 words)

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