(MindaNews / 12 August) – Every Buwan ng Wika we debate about whether Filipino should be utilized more prominently by government instead of English. The
– Every Buwan ng Wika we debate about whether Filipino should be utilized more prominently by government instead of English. The rationale given is that the latter discriminates against the “masa”, the code word for poor Filipinos.
Thus, we have two official languages, Filipino and English. However, since the American colonial period, our government has always used English as its favored language of communication. This is the reason why our laws, court decisions and other state documents are all in English.“The national language of the Philippines is Filipino. As it evolves, it shall be further developed and enriched on the basis of existing Philippine and other languages.
Second, the use of Filipino as the language of the nation is suspect because it is basically a Tagalog clone and is very rarely spoken by nationals outside the Tagalog-speaking region. There are actually over 120 languages spoken in the Philippines. Without a doubt, this necessitates a rethinking of the constitutional designation of Filipino as our one and only national language.
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