The Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF; literally, "Center of the Filipino Language"), also known the Sentro, is a
language academy
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,
research center
Center or centre may refer to:
Mathematics
*Center (geometry), the middle of an object
* Center (algebra), used in various contexts
** Center (group theory)
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* Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentric ...
, and
university-based publishing house that is part of the
University of the Philippines System (UP). It has offices in various autonomous universities of UP System, the most notable of which is the one housed at the
University of the Philippines Diliman
The University of the Philippines Diliman (also called UPD; ), also referred to as UP Diliman, is a State university and college (Philippines), public, coeducational, Research university, research university located in Diliman, Quezon City, Ph ...
(i.e. SWF Diliman) that won the
Philippine National Book Award for Publisher of the Year by the Manila Critics' Circle. The Sentro is active not just within the UP system due to its mission of "developing and disseminating" the
Filipino language
Filipino ( ; , ) is the national language of the Philippines, the main lingua franca, and one of the two official languages of the country, along with Philippine English, English. It is only a ''de facto'' and not a ''de jure'' standard langu ...
according to the provisions of the
1987 Philippine Constitution.
One of Sentro's projects is the ''
UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino'', a monolingual Filipino dictionary.
Mga Programa ng Sentro ng Wikang Filipino
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See also
* University of the Philippines Press
* Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
The Commission on the Filipino Language (CFL), also referred to as the (KWF), is the official regulating body of the Filipino language and the official government institution tasked with developing, preserving, and promoting the various local ...
* Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
;Defunct language regulators
* Academia Bicolana
* Sanghiran san Binisaya
References
Language regulators
Filipino language
University of the Philippines
University of the Philippines Diliman
Book publishing companies of the Philippines
University presses of the Philippines
Publishing companies established in 1989
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