The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) today (July 4, Wednesday) unveiled the 5th language marker in the country in Occidental Mindoro with the support of the Office of Senator Loren Legarda.
“This started as a vision to immortalize the diverse languages of our country. I am proud that this nationwide project of the KWF that seeks to identify areas where languages originated from has taken off and this is now its 5th installation,” Legarda said.
Senator Loren Legarda invites everyone to watch the third episode of Dayaw Season 5: Pagdiwang at Pasasalamat on Thursday, July 04, 6:30 pm, on the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC), with livestreaming on abs-cbnnews.com/live and on ANC’s Facebook page.
The third episode, “Buklog”, looks into the grandest and most complex ritual of the Subanens of Mindanao that reaffirms their profound gratitude for the blessings that they received, healing from an illness, reception for a new home, burial rites, greeting an honored guest, recognition of a new timuay (leader), and even rites for a dead infant.
In observance of the International Plastic Bag Free Day today, Senator Loren Legarda renewed her call for a more stringent regulation of the use of plastic bags to curb pollution and mitigate the harmful effects of marine litter.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change and UNISDR Global Champion for Resilience, said that plastic bags end up as litter, clogging drainages, polluting waterways and even endangering marine animals, human health, and ecosystem.
Senator Loren Legarda said that the Philippines can look forward to stronger cooperation in more areas of development with Spain as the two nations commemorate today the Philippines-Spanish Friendship Day.
“Spain has been our staunch ally in various cultural, social, and humanitarian projects. Seventy-one (71) years of diplomatic relations augur well for an unwavering partnership that can even be stronger in the areas of economic cooperation, environmental conservation, and renewable energy development,” Legarda said.
Senator Loren Legarda hailed the unveiling of the 4th Language Marker in the country on June 25, 2018 as a commemoration of the country’s indigenous languages in the form of physical structures designed and created by installation artist Luis ‘Junyee’ Yee Jr.
With the support from the Office of Senator Loren Legarda, the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) and Kalinga State University led the unveiling of the Language Monument or Bantayog-Wika for the Kinalinga language in Tabuk, Kalinga, the second language marker erected in the Cordillera region next to Ifugao, which was inaugurated on March 27, 2018.
