The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino released a statement in response to the controversy surrounding the launch of the Ortograpiya ti Pagsasao nga Ilokano 2018 which many Ilokano writers’ groups and other advocates of the Ilokano… Read more »
Category: Ilocano Language
A Language of Critique, A Language of Possibility Nakem Conferences and its work could be understood as our own language of critique.21 Our work in the Ilokano language and culture instruction at the University of Hawaii… Read more »
The six EFA Goals can never be vague to us as these are concerns that have not left us even when we were discriminated against, even when the tolerance for our languages and cultures was… Read more »
But in all these acts of state-sanctioned discrimination and intolerance, acts that are those of a cultural tyrant, the effectively ‘othered’ Philippine ethnolinguistic communities did not raise howl but meekly followed suit, taking in all… Read more »
We did not realize that our small acts of resistance at Nakem Conference, if you can call it this way, were acts that take their energy from other people doing the same thing for their… Read more »
The First Step to Walking: Resistance and Clandestine Initiatives All these issues of displacement in historical consciousness are not easy to spot in an increasingly homogenized society like the Philippines, like the United States, and… Read more »
Our Ilokano Language and Literature Program at the University of Hawaii is the only degree-granting program of its kind in the world, with a full program for a major in Ilokano, a minor, and a… Read more »
We have not seen this happening in a long while—about half a century—when those who had the courage to write in Ilokano were also university teachers and college instructors and school administrators and students and… Read more »
The 2000 census of the Philippines places the number of Ilokanos at close to eight million people, close to twice the number of people of New Zealand. The New Zealanders the whole world knows; the… Read more »