Signing is gesture or only pantomime. Sign languages are based on spoken languages. Sign languages have been demonstrated to be true languages at par with spoken languages. Spoken languages are based ...

MANILA, Philippines — Despite the presence of a law, advocates in the deaf community believe more needs to be done to promote Filipino Sign Language. The FSL Act or Republic Act 11106, signed into law ...

The theme for International Mother Language Day 2020 being celebrated today, Feb. 21, is “Languages without borders.” Unesco declares that at least 43 percent of the estimated 6,000 languages spoken ...

(1st UPDATE) As the Filipino deaf community strives for its language to be more widely recognized, two organizations share how Filipino Sign Language continues to grow amid the exclusion of the deaf ...

[This is the first in a series of INQUIRER.net’s special reports on the Philippine Deaf community and Filipino Sign Language.] On the International Day of Sign Languages, Sept. 23, we celebrate the ...

Jay-R De Lara, who recently started his seventh year as an educator, has been teaching the Filipino Language and Culture program at Holy Trinity Catholic High School in Edmonton for the past six years ...

It’s funny how every Buwan ng Wika in August pupils in far-flung barrios are forced to speak pure Tagalog. Sure, they’ve ditched such silly terms as salumpuwit for chair or salungmata for eyeglasses.