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Yakan Language Yakan is a Sama– Bajaw language of Basilan  Basilan Island in the Philippines. It is the native language of Yakan people, the indigenous as well as the largest ethnic group on the island. It has a total of 110,000 native speakers. Despite being located in the Philippines, it is not closely related to other Philippine languages  Philippine languages but more closely related to Sama-Bajaw languages and possibly Barito languages in Indonesian Borneo  Borneo and those in Madagascar  Madagascar and Mayotte. References[edit]^ Yakan at Ethnologue  Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yakan". Glottolog  Glottolog 3.0 [...More...] |
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Komisyon Sa Wikang Filipino The Commission on the Filipino Language  Commission on the Filipino Language (Filipino: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino; Hiligaynon: Komisyon sa Panghambal nga Filipino; Cebuano: Komisyon sa Pinulongang Filipino; Pangasinan: Komisyon na Salitan Filipino; Kapampangan: Komisyun king Amanung Filipinu; Ilokano: Komision iti Pagsasao a Filipino; Central Bicolano: Komisyon sa Tataramon na Filipino; Waray: Komisyon ha Yinaknan nga Filipino) is the official regulating body of the Filipino language  Filipino language and the official government institution tasked with developing, preserving, and promoting the various local Philippine languages.[1][2] It was established in accord with the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines. In October 2008, José L. Santos, a native of Hagonoy, Bulacan, was appointed chairman of the Commission, succeeding Ricardo María Durán Nolasco. Its office is in Watson Building, San Miguel, Manila. Established by Republic Act No [...More...] |
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Indonesia Coordinates: 5°S 120°E / 5°S 120°E / -5; 120 Republic  Republic of IndonesiaRepublik Indonesia (Indonesian) Flag National emblem Motto: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika  [...More...] |
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Ethnologue Ethnologue: Languages of the World (stylized as Ethnoloɠue) is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It was first issued in 1951, and is now published annually by SIL International, a U.S.-based, worldwide, Christian non-profit organization. SIL's main purpose is to study, develop and document languages to promote literacy and for religious purposes [...More...] |
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Language Family A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree, or in a subsequent modification, to species in a phylogenetic tree of evolutionary taxonomy. Linguists therefore describe the daughter languages within a language family as being genetically related.[1] According to Ethnologue Ethnologue the 7,111 living human languages are distributed in 141 different language families.[2] A "living language" is simply one that is used as the primary form of communication of a group of people [...More...] |
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Mayotte Mayotte .svg/240px-Flag_of_Mayotte_(local).svg.png) Mayotte (French: Mayotte, pronounced [majɔt]; Shimaore: Maore, IPA: [maˈore]; Malagasy: Mahori) is an insular department and region of France  France officially named the Department of Mayotte Mayotte (French: Département de Mayotte).[3] It consists of a main island, Grande-Terre (or Maore), a smaller island, Petite-Terre (or Pamanzi), and several islets around these two. The archipelago is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean  Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeast Africa, between northwestern Madagascar Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique. The department status of Mayotte Mayotte is recent and the region remains the poorest in France [...More...] |
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Cordillera Administrative Region Cordillera Administrative Region  Cordillera Administrative Region (Ilokano: Rehion/Deppaar Administratibo ti Kordiliera; Filipino: Rehiyong Pampangasiwaan ng Cordillera), designated as CAR, is an administrative region in the Philippines  Philippines situated within the island of Luzon. The only landlocked region in the country, it is bordered by the Ilocos Region  Ilocos Region in the west and southwest, and by the Cagayan Valley  Cagayan Valley on the north, east, and southeast. Prior to the 2015 census, it is the least populated and least densely-populated Region in the country. The region comprises six provinces: Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga and Mountain Province. The regional center is the highly urbanized city of Baguio. The region, officially created on July 15, 1987,[2] covers most of the Cordillera Central mountains of Luzon, and is home to numerous ethnic people collectively [...More...] |
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Ilocos Region The Ilocos Region Ilocos Region (Ilokano: Rehion/Deppaar ti Ilocos; Pangasinan: Sagor na Baybay na Luzon; Filipino: Rehiyon ng Ilocos) is an administrative region of the Philippines, designated as Region I, occupying the northwestern section of Luzon. It is bordered by the Cordillera Administrative Region Cordillera Administrative Region to the east, the Cagayan Valley Cagayan Valley to the northeast and southeast, and the Central Luzon  Luzon to the south. To the west lies the South China  China Sea. The region comprises four provinces: Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union and Pangasinan [...More...] |
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Luzon Luzon Luzon (/luːˈzɒn/ ( listen); Tagalog pronunciation: [luˈson]) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. It is ranked 15th largest in the world by land area. Located in the northern region of the archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as well as Quezon  Quezon City, the country's most populous city. With a population of 53 million as of 2015[update],[2] it is the fourth most populous island in the world (after Java, Honshu, and Great Britain), having about 53% of the country's total population. Luzon Luzon may also refer to one of the three primary island groups in the country [...More...] |
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Regional Language BangladeshA regional language is a language spoken in an area of a sovereign state, whether it be a small area, a federal state or province, or some wider area. Internationally, for the purposes of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, "regional or minority languages" means languages that are:traditionally used within a given territory of a State by nationals of that State who form a group numerically smaller than the rest of the State's population; and different from the official language(s) of that State[1]Recognition of regional or minority languages must not be confused with recognition as an official language.Contents1 Influence of number of speakers 2 Relationship with official languages 3 Official languages as regional languages 4 See also 5 Refe [...More...] |
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List Of Language Regulators This is a list of bodies that regulate standard languages, often called language academies. Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries,[1] which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations. A language regulator may also be descriptive, however, while maintaining (but not imposing) a standard spelling. Many language academies are private institutions, although some are governmental bodies in different states, or enjoy some form of government-sanctioned status in one or more countries. There may also be multiple language academies attempting to regulate the same language, sometimes based in different countries and sometimes influenced by political factors. Many world languages have one or more language academies [...More...] |
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Madagascar Madagascar Madagascar (/ˌmædəˈɡæskər/; Malagasy: Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar Madagascar (Malagasy: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara [republiˈkʲan madaɡasˈkʲarə̥]; French: République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa. The nation comprises the island of Madagascar Madagascar (the fourth-largest island in the world), and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar Madagascar split from the Indian peninsula  Indian peninsula around 88 million years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation. Consequently, Madagascar Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth [...More...] |
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ISO 639-3 ISO 639-3:2007, Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages, is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. It defines three-letter codes for identifying languages. The standard was published by ISO on 1 February 2007.[1] ISO 639-3 extends the ISO 639-2 alpha-3 codes with an aim to cover all known natural languages [...More...] |
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Glottolog Glottolog Glottolog is a bibliographic database of the world's lesser-known languages, developed and maintained first at the former Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and since 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. Glottolog Glottolog provides a catalogue of the world's languages and language families, and a bibliography on the world's less-spoken languages [...More...] |
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Regions Of The Philippines SenateSenate President Aquilino Pimentel IIIHouse of RepresentativesSpeaker Pantaleon AlvarezDistricts Party-list representationLocal legislaturesARMM Regional Legislative Assembly Provinces Cities Municipalities BarangaysExecutivePresident of the PhilippinesRodrigo DuterteVice President of the PhilippinesLeni RobredoCabinet Executive departments Local governmentJudiciarySupreme CourtChief Justice Maria Lourdes SerenoCourt of Appeals Court of Tax Appeals Sandiganbayan Ombudsman Regional Trial Courts Barangay  [...More...] |
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Borneo Borneo Borneo (/ˈbɔːrnioʊ/; Malay: Pulau Borneo, Indonesian: Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.[note 1] At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra. The island is politically divided among three countries: Malaysia  Malaysia and Brunei  Brunei in the north, and Indonesia  Indonesia to the south.[1] Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory. In the north, the East Malaysian states of Sabah  Sabah and Sarawak  Sarawak make up about 26% of the island. Additionally, the Malaysian federal territory of Labuan  Labuan is situated on a small island just off the coast of Borneo [...More...] |
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