ZAMBOANGA CITY— Chavacanos are beaming with pride at the fate of a local college acoustic band that used to take small gigs just to get their songs heard. Maldita (crafty in Mexican Spanish) has been ...
Keeping up with its goal of normalizing regional languages in mainstream pop, the multilingual pop boy band Alamat puts the spotlight on Chavacano with its latest single, “Porque.” Originally recorded ...
Cavite City is home to plenty of Chavacano speakers. But what once was a thriving language may be on its way out. INQUIRER.net takes a #LookThrough Cavite’s Chavacano language and how one community is ...
The sweet, endearing Bakit is the song of the moment. It is about a lost love and comes in two versions in the album Maldita. The other one is the Spanish Porque, which is bakit in Filipino and why in ...
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Thousands of non-Zamboangueno primary school pupils — most of them Tausug and Cebuano — who are now residents here have expressed difficulty in learning their lessons because they ...
University of Alberta student Mikaela Yeo thought her native language was dying. She hoped to help save it only to learn it was far from disappearing. Yeo moved to Canada several years ago from ...
Jehovah’s Witnesses are translating publications from English to at least 23 local dialects, an effort which also contributes to preserving Philippine languages and culture. Although the Witnesses ...
Senatorial candidate Ben Tulfo has called for the protection and preservation of the Chavacano language in Zamboanga City. According to Tulfo, the Chavacano language is gradually disappearing among ...
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