Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
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The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (Commission on the Filipino Language) is the official regulating body of the Filipino language. It was established in accord with the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines and earlier in the 1930s as the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa.
One major criticism of the Komisyon is that it does not really do its job in developing the Filipino language. This is grounded in the fact that Filipino, to this day, is essentially Tagalog, and with an impoverished technical and scientific vocabulary, at that, which relies heavily on foreign borrowings and, often, constructions. It is often left to the universities to develop their own respective terminologies for each field, leading to a lack of uniformity.
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- Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
- The Language Planning Situation in the Philippines, by Andrew Gonzalez, FSC
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