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[edit] Poorly written text?

The Philippines then became a fledging democracy until the authoritarian rule of Ferdinand Marcos led to his overthrow in the People Power Revolution of 1986.

The previous text is poorly written.

[edit] opinion

pardon me for that... i just wanna note that Chavacano is not a member of the asthronesian family but a Creole spanish, which is a member of the romance language and also an iberian language... and as a peoplo, its culture, really romance.thanks

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.60.235.217 (talk) 06:41, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TYPO

The Phlippines is a bi-lingual country but more than 180 languages and dialects are spoken in the archipelago, almost all of them belonging to the Borneo-Philippines group of the Malayo-Polynesian language branch of the Austronesian language family.


Please note the typographical error on the subject of the sentence. A spellchecker in the Editing Talk toolbar would be very much of help also.

More Power!


--I heart Surgery (talk)


I've fixed this and also reworded the sentence a bit. For spell-checking, if you use Firefox, you can turn on the "check my spelling as I type" option. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 01:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reference Please

Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Philippine archipelago was collectively known as Maharlika, which may have come from the Old Malay language meaning "noble creation".

Have heard of this before though thought of it as apocryphal. Kindly share your references as I would very much like to find out as well.

Thanks.


--I heart Surgery (talk) 01:11, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm no expert, and this info doesn't answer your question, but a quick check turns up the following info:
  • Zaide, Sonia M. (1994), The Philippines: A Unique Nation, All-Nations Publishing Co., p. 5, ISBN 971-642-071-4 
    "Because it was the foreigners who named out country, some Filipinos have proposed new names for the Philippines. The Katipunan general, Artemio Ricarte, wanted to call us "Rizalline Republic", after Jose Rizal. Another name,"Maharlika", was proposed by former President Ferdinand Marcos, after his dream of making this nation great. Modern nationalists have objected to the present name of the Philippines because of its colonial connotation, so they want the name changed."
  • Agoncillo, Teodoro A. (1990), History of the Filipino People (Eighth ed.), University of the Philippines, p. 102, ISBN 9-71-871106-6 
    "Personal Motives—As proved by official records, some revolts were personally led by former barangay datus and marhilikas, as well as babaylans or katalonans ..."
Agoncillo also has some background info about Malay settlement of the Philippines in his "Before the Conquest" chapter.
My Tagalog-English dictionary says:"maharlikâ adj. noble; aristocratic. Syn. Mahál, Noble.
kamaharlikaán; mga maharlikâ nobility; people of noble rank ...;
pagkamaharliká n. nobility, meaning noble birth; noble rank. ..."
-- Boracay Bill (talk) 01:50, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey why did you guys remove that? I thought that Philippines actually did have a former name before the Spaniards came *sigh* by the way I am So SO in favour of changing Philippines' name. Our country is named after some Spanish King who doesn't even rule our country can you believe that?! It's like even though the Spaniards ran away from us they were still laughing at us because of this "mark" they left us. What I'm trying to say is we should totally change it so that it could give our own country it's own identity and style not a Spanish one, come on let's be original like our ancestors from Malaysia and Indonesia not be Spanish because we are not Spain we're Filipinos not Chinese or Spanish. Blueknightex (talk) 12:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Sparked by recent edits which removed related material from this talk page, I googled around a bit and came up with this page, part one of a four part article by Nathan Gilbert Quimpo on Colonial Name, Colonial Mentality and Ethnocentrism. Search for Maharlika for the relevant bits. The article cites supporting sources. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 03:19, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TYPO typo (ECHO ehco)

Filipno and English are the official languages of the Philippines, but more than 180 languages and dialects are spoken in the archipelago, almost all of them belonging to the Borneo-Philippines group of the Malayo-Polynesian language branch of the Austronesian language family.

Please note the typo on "Filipino."


--I heart Surgery (talk) 01:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Spanish is official

hello ,since junary 2008 the spanish lenguage is official in phlippines . if somepeople is incredulous here is a page where tell the new

http://herenciaespanola.blogspot.com/2007/12/ya-es-oficial-filipinas-volvera.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.77.12.167 (talk) 20:10, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

The article says it's official that Spanish will be taught at schools, but it doesn't say anything about the language being an official language in the Philippines. If you insist that it is, then please provide the amendment to the Philippine constitution that actually states this. --Edward Sandstig (talk) 06:36, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] American stay in Philillines end

After 1902 war, officially ending in 1913, did americans stay in Philippines until the beginning or end of world war II? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.3.167 (talk) 22:20, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Population

RP population = 88.57M --Filipinayzd (talk) 14:59, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Gracias Filipinos

Es lo maximo!! esto es demasiado bueno que el español sea hablado como lengua oficial en las Filipinas. Muchas gracias filipinos por hacer crecer este idioma tan bello!.

Venezuela y todos los paises hispanos siempre estaran con ustedes!

Saludos desde Caracas, Venezuela --67.17.161.222 (talk) 00:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] changes to Ethnic groups section final paragraph

I deleted a part of the initial sentence which read: "; this is due in part to the lack of government statistical study regarding racial makeup in the Philippines." I cannot fathom what statistical info the government might collect, and from what reliable source. Such info is usually collected in a census, by asking individual people what they believe their ancestry to be. This strikes me as likely not a reliable source of info. There is some info available here. I also deleted the next sentence, which read: "The Philippine Statistics Department does not account for the racial background or ancestry of an individual.", since this only comments on the clause which I deleted from the initial sentence. I also reworded the remaining text a bit, removing some bits which I thought did not contribute useful info and toning down unsupported assertions a bit (e.g., changing "most Filipino mestizos" to "many Filipino mestizos"). -- Boracay Bill (talk) 23:21, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stubby section

Can we beef up the section "Administrative divisions"? Its stubby. Just a couple of lines there and a very huge list and and very huge image. Or, can we just merge it to a related section? How about Government? --Efe (talk) 09:39, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey Pinoys! --Efe (talk) 06:39, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] wrong statement in opening paragraph?

This statement doesn't look right to me:

it is the only Southeast Asian country to share no land borders with its neighbors

What about Japan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, for example?

See e.g.:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mv.html

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.129.103.138 (talk) 02:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Those countries aren't Southeast Asian. Asian, yes, but not SE Asian. Nautical Mongoose (talk) 02:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Japan in East Asia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives in South Asia. They are not at Southeast Asia --bluemask (talk) 02:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)