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"Sa Aking Mga Kabatà" (English: To My Fellow Youth) is a poem about the love of one's native language written in Tagalog. It is widely attributed to the Filipino national hero José Rizal , who supposedly wrote it in 1868 at the age of eight. [ 1 ]
A sample of Rizal's illustration of The Monkey and The Turtle. The Turtle and the Monkey (Tagalog: Ang Pagong at ang Matsing or Si Pagong at si Matsing) also known as The Monkey and the Turtle is a Philippine fable. It involves the tortoise outwitting a monkey over a banana tree.
Rizal Without the Overcoat is a book by Filipino writer Ambeth Ocampo, adapted from his "Looking Back" column in the Philippine Daily Globe from October 1987 to July 1990. . These writings were attempts to "translate" José Rizal and his historical context so that he could be better understood by a new generation—to present "a "new" Rizal that had been obscured by school and myth.
In 1901, the American Governor General William Howard Taft suggested that the U.S.-sponsored Philippine Commission name Rizal a national hero for Filipinos. Jose Rizal was an ideal candidate, favourable to the American occupiers since he was dead, and non-violent, a favourable quality which, if emulated by Filipinos, would not threaten the ...
Pascual H. Poblete (Filipino: Pascual Poblete Hicaro; May 17, 1857—February 5, 1921) [1] was a Filipino writer, journalist, and linguist, remarkably noted as the first translator of José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere into the Tagalog language.
Jose P. Laurel: Taksil o Bayani? 40 November 12, 2014 Da King: 41 November 19, 2014 Government Scandal 42 November 26, 2014 Kwento ng Traydor at mga Taksil 43 December 3, 2014 Idol sa Kasaysayan 44 December 10, 2014 Mga Buhay Pag-ibig Sa Kasaysayan 45 December 17, 2014 Kalayaan Islands: 46 July 11, 2015 Rizal and Bonifacio Monument: 47 July 18 ...
Igbo is a tonal language, and there are hundreds of different Igbo dialects and Igboid languages, such as the Ikwerre and Ekpeye languages. [25] In 1939, Dr. Ida C. Ward led a research expedition on Igbo dialects which could possibly be used as a basis of a standard Igbo dialect, also known as Central Igbo.
Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.It explores inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late 19th century.