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Tagalog profanity can refer to a wide range of offensive, blasphemous, and taboo words or expressions in the Tagalog language of the Philippines. Due to Filipino culture , expressions which may sound benign when translated back to English can cause great offense; while some expressions English speakers might take great offense to can sound ...
Maka-Diyos, Maka-tao, Makakalikasan at Makabansa ( Filipino for "For God, People, Nature, and Country" [ 1] or "For the Love of God, People, Nature, and Country" [ 2]) is the national motto of the Philippines. Derived from the last four lines of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Philippine Flag, it was adopted on February 12, 1998, with the ...
The Tagalog cosmic beliefs is not exempted from the moon-swallowing serpent myths prevalent throughout the different ethnic peoples of the Philippines. But unlike the moon-swallowing serpent stories of other ethnic peoples, which usually portrays the serpent as a god, the Tagalog people believe that the serpent which causes eclipses is a ...
The Magandang Balita Biblia ( lit. 'Good News Bible') is a translation of the Bible in the Tagalog language, first published by the Philippine Bible Society in 1973. It follows the tradition of the Good News Bible; however, it is not a direct translation but rather only a parallel translation of it.
Portions of the Bible were first translated by Spanish friars into the Philippine languages in the catechisms and prayer materials they produced. The Doctrina Cristiana (1593) was the first book published in the Tagalog baybayin script. Protestants published Ang Biblia (American Standard Version) in 1905 in Tagalog, based on the Spanish version ...
Its usage was so common among Spaniards and Spanish-Filipino mestizos living in the Philippines that konyo became a Tagalog word for upper-class people. In Ecuador and Chile it means stingy, tight-fisted, although in the latter country the variation coñete is becoming more common.
Iba-Balita. Iba-Balita Ngayon. IBC Express Balita. IBC Headliners. IBC News Tonight. IBC NewsBreak. IBC TV X-Press. In the Limelight. Ito Ang Balita.
As of the 21st century, four bible translations in the Ilocano language of the Philippines exist: Ti Biblia: based on the American Standard Version and some available Spanish Versions. Naimbag a Damag Biblia: an equivalent translation of the Good News Bible based on the Novum Testamentum Graecae and the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia.