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Filipino, The Language That Is Not One PDF
Filipino, The Language That Is Not One PDF
Those who teach and advocate the wider use of Filipino see CHED
as threatening its place with the current proposals to abolish its
teaching as a language at the university level in the coming years.
Instead, universities would be left to decide which courses would
be in Filipino and which in English.
Preservation of vernaculars
Hierarchy of languages
Foreign languages are those that come from the outside, spoken
by non-natives. English and the varieties of Chinese languages fall
into this latter category. According to the Komisyon, foreign
languages will always remain foreign. They cannot and do not
grow naturally on Philippine soil. They thus exist as unassimilable
languages, beyond naturalization and localization. Wholly distinct
from all the mother tongues, they can, at best, be step-mother
tongues. They can never aspire to become a national language.
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