MY column on the number of languages in the Philippines last week created a stir and received a number of comments and reposts on social media. While there were people who were happy to learn ...

One way of breathing new life into a dying dialect and sustaining it as a living language is to increase its prestige and accessibility, language experts say. This is where such media as TV and radio ...

Growing up, there was always a debate about whether or not Bisaya was a language or a dialect. I distinctly remember one of my grade school teachers telling me that Bisaya is a dialect when I insisted ...