1596, which designated some islands and reefs of China's Nansha Qundao and large areas of their surrounding waters as "Kalayaan Island Group" ("Kalayaan" in Tagalog means "Freedom"), set up "Municipality of Kalayaan" and illegally included them in the Philippine territory. 60. The ...
José Rizal, a polyglot who knew seven languages including Tagalog, would not have written his most important works in Spanish; he would have written them in English and Tagalog – but no, José Rizal wrote it all in Spanish for his countrymen who, naturally, could read him in this same l...
Tagalog is verb-initial, and it also has scrambling among its postverbal arguments (Kroeger 1993). As is common in many languages of the Philippines, it has a voice system. One element, marked with ang, is selected as the pivot, with the thematic role of the pivot corresponding with a ...
the f0 of a tone may dip or rise at the edges depending on the surrounding tones, consonant influence, or position in the sentence. This may give rise to a surface phonetic contour. In some languages, such edge tone effects can become phonologized. For example, in Yoruba,...
In addition, DNA samples provided by other investigators were as fol- lows: 38 Han Chinese and 39 Mongolians (Buryats), by C. Tyler-Smith; 9 Han Chinese and 6 Vietnamese, by D. Labuda; 32 Japanese (Oita) by Y. Tamaki; 105 Philippines (63 Tagalog and 42 Cebuano speakers) by J....
The most common language spoken in the Chino Hills East neighborhood is English, spoken by 47.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese, Spanish, Korean and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region)....