{"id":224651,"date":"2019-07-27T03:58:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224651"},"modified":"2019-07-27T03:58:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T07:58:39","slug":"kwf-to-launch-2019-buwan-ng-wika-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/27\/kwf-to-launch-2019-buwan-ng-wika-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"KWF to launch 2019 Buwan ng Wika next week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to KWF, “Wikang Katutubo: Tungo sa Isang Bansang Filipino” is Buwan ng Wika\u2019s theme this year. (Photo<\/a>: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino\/Website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u00a0—\u00a0Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) will launch next week the nationwide celebration of the annual Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa.<\/p>\n

The celebration will kick off with the joint flag-raising ceremony of Manila City government and KWF on Monday (July 29) at the Andres Bonifacio Shrine near Manila City Hall.<\/p>\n

The flag-raising event will be at 7:30 a.m., earlier than the previous 8 a.m. schedule, the KWF said on Friday.<\/p>\n

KWF said Manila Mayor Isko Moreno already confirmed to attend the event.<\/p>\n

Also expected are representatives of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts as well as other government agencies.<\/p>\n

KWF senior language researcher Roy Rene Cagalingan said that after the flag-raising, KWF will air at the venue a video on Bantayog-Wika monuments that the agency installed and unveiled around the country.<\/p>\n

Each of the monuments represents a Philippine language, he said.<\/p>\n

Proclamation 1041 series of 1997 proclaimed August of every year as Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa.<\/p>\n

Buwan ng Wika highlights the importance Philippine languages in promoting communication, understanding, unity and progress in the country.<\/p>\n

According to KWF, “Wikang Katutubo: Tungo sa Isang Bansang Filipino” is Buwan ng Wika\u2019s theme this year.<\/p>\n

The 2019 Wika activities nationwide aim to help raise awareness about indigenous languages\u2019 role in promoting Philippine development and forming the country\u2019s national identity, Cagalingan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch activities also support the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL) celebration this year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution A\/RES\/71\/178 proclaiming 2019 as IYIL.<\/p>\n

IYIL aims to draw international attention to the \u201ccritical loss\u201d of indigenous languages, the resolution noted.<\/p>\n

Among the activities for this year\u2019s Buwan ng Wika celebration are the Aug. 5-7 Pambansang Kumperensiya sa Pagsasalin in Manila, and the Aug. 19-21 Pambansang Kongreso sa Katutubong Wika in Bacolod City.<\/p>\n

Cagalingan said the schools’ Sentro ng Wika at Kultura (SWAK) centers around the country will support the launch of the 2019 Buwan ng Wika.<\/p>\n

“SWAKs will simultaneously conduct, at 8 a.m. Monday, flag-raising ceremonies in respective areas,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said SWAKs will afterwards light on Monday morning the Bantayog-Wika monuments.<\/p>\n

According to KWF, the country has about 130 languages with some nearing extinction due to decreasing number of people who speak these.<\/p>\n

KWF has been installing and unveiling its Bantayog-Wika monuments around the country since 2018 to help raise public awareness and promote use of indigenous Philippine languages, averting extinction of these communication modes.<\/p>\n

The agency targets unveiling a Bantayog-Wika monument for each Philippine language.<\/p>\n

Monuments that KWF unveiled this year so far are for the Tiboli, Blaan and Ivatan languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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