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Baybayin is an ancient script used primarily by the Tagalog people. Baybayin is an indigenous Indic script that has been widely used in traditional Tagalog domains. It is one of many suyat scripts in the Philippines. It continued to be…

Entering a well-preserved Filipino ancestral house is like boarding a time machine. Our generation is fortunate, because the heirs of these remaining antique houses have put tremendous effort in preserving their ancestors’ dwellings for us to experience and learn from…

MANILA — Did you know that more than 35 Filipino words have made it to the Oxford English Dictionary? In its 2016 update, words uniquely coined by Filipinos like “aggrupation,” “yaya,” and “tabo” were added to the international dictionary. In…

“The number of individual languages listed for Philippines is 185. Of these, 181 are living and 4 are extinct. Of the living languages, 43 are institutional, 70 are developing, 45 are vigorous, 13 are in trouble, and 10 are dying.”…

For distinctly Filipino situations, distinctly Filipino manners are required. Teach your children these important rules. Culture affects children’s manners, says etiquette expert Pauli Antoine Porquez Genuino, president of image and social graces training companies Red Archon and Etiquette de Manille.…