Schoolchildren in the Philippines have recited the verses for years, first in Spanish, then in English and now in Tagalog, the language spoken by most of the country’s 105 million inhabitants. The poem is memorised, translated and debated. Its instruction is legislated into the country’s con...
Chinese is also known as a morpho-graphic language, wherein each basic written unit (i.e., character) represents a morpheme (Tong et al.,2017). Some characters can function as standalone words (i.e., single-character words), for example, 山 /saan1/,mountainand 水 /seoi2/,water. Ho...