{"id":5042,"date":"2017-08-05T08:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T00:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2021-07-12T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T01:57:50","slug":"expats-guide-to-buwan-ng-wika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2017\/08\/05\/expats-guide-to-buwan-ng-wika\/","title":{"rendered":"Expat&#8217;s Guide to PH&#8217;s National Language Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The month of August marks the National Language Month or <em>Buwan ng Wika<\/em> in the Philippines. It\u2019s a month-long celebration that aims to increase awareness of the different languages found in the country. It is not just celebrating the Filipino language\u00a0but rather, appreciating the country\u2019s culture as a whole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5043\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/Buwan-ng-Wika-2017-Banner.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/Buwan-ng-Wika-2017-Banner.png 1140w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/Buwan-ng-Wika-2017-Banner-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/Buwan-ng-Wika-2017-Banner-768x269.png 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/Buwan-ng-Wika-2017-Banner-1024x359.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">IMAGE DepEd Tambayan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Schools around the country usually celebrate &#8220;<em>Buwan ng Wika<\/em>&#8221; by having activities centered around the Filipino Language like performing a\u00a0<em>Sabayang Pagbigkas\u00a0<\/em>(Group Oration); wearing of ethnic tribe\u00a0costumes,<em>Filipiniana<\/em>, and <em>Barong Tagalog<\/em>;\u00a0preparing and performing various dance numbers featuring the country&#8217;s native dances; singing Filipino folk songs and; allotting days to play <em>palarong pambansa<\/em> (traditional games of the Philippines.)<\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the common activities in schools during National Language Week:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>1. Wearing of Philippine National Costumes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Students and teachers come to school in traditional Philippine attire either by wearing a traditional ethnic group costume, <em>Filipiniana<\/em> (Maria Clara type). The best-dressed individuals are usually awarded prizes during the ending ceremonies, with categories for both students and teachers. This is done to show that despite the cultural diversity represented by the different Philippine attires, the people of the country are unified by the one common language that they all speak: Filipino.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5044\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/ZZZ_082312_mmanila_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/ZZZ_082312_mmanila_b.jpg 640w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/ZZZ_082312_mmanila_b-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/ZZZ_082312_mmanila_b-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">IMAGE GMA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"bolded\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>2. Playing of Palarong-Pambansa (Traditional Games of the Philippines)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Students group together and compete in games traditionally played by children in the Philippines. One of the most popular games is\u00a0<em>patintero<\/em>, which involves a grid drawn on the ground, one team scattered along the lines, and the opposing team trying to get past from one side of the grid to the other without getting caught by the other team\u2019s members. Other popular games are\u00a0<em>piko<\/em>,\u00a0<em>tumbang preso<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>luksong tinik<\/em>. Like the Filipino language, these traditional games represent a culture that the Philippine people call their own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Game Play: Patintero | Team Yey\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vMvoUCJzqJ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>Piko (hopscotch)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Piko<\/em> is often a girls&#8217; game but even boys enjoy it for it is very popular in the Philippines. It is also known as <em>Buan-Buan,\u00a0<\/em>a\u00a0game involving drawing a diagram on the ground, usually by chalk or charcoal, dividing it into sections,\u00a0 and numbering it from 1- 10, where players hop from section to section after throwing a puck landing on a particular number.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Game Play: Piko\/Hopscotch | Team Yey\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Od2e1I7Nzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><em>Tumbang Preso (Knock down the prisoner)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The word<b>\u00a0<\/b><em>tumba<\/em>\u00a0means \u201cto fall\u201d and\u00a0<em>preso\u00a0<\/em>means \u201cprisoner.\u201d There are only two things needed to play the game: an empty\u00a0can\u00a0and a slipper for each player.\u00a0\u00a0To make the game enjoyable and exciting, there should be no more than nine players who will be playing. One player guards the can while the others stay behind a line\u00a0with their\u00a0own slipper.\u00a0The object of the game is to make the can fall to its side and retrieve the thrown slipper before the \u201cit\u201d stands the can back up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Game Play: Tumbang Preso | Team Yey\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_MZ2_B7jKI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Luksong Tinik<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Translated to &#8220;jumping over thorns&#8221;, is a popular game in the Philippines which originated in the\u00a0city of Cabanatuan played by two teams with equal numbers of players which involves players sitting on the ground and other players jumping over parts of their body. Each team designates a leader, the\u00a0<i>nanay<\/i>\u00a0(mother) or usually the ones who can jump the highest, while the rest of the players are called\u00a0<i>anak<\/i>\u00a0(children).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Game Play: Luksong Tinik | Team Yey\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zpy6C2uxsW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>3. Sabayang Pagbigkas (Group Oration)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the celebration of <em>Buwan ng Wika<\/em>, each class chooses a traditional Filipino poem to recite as a class in front of the whole school. The students usually perform the poems in costume and choreographed gestures to give life to the words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5048\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/2795998727_a6076876bf_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/2795998727_a6076876bf_z.jpg 500w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/2795998727_a6076876bf_z-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/2795998727_a6076876bf_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>\u00a0IMAGE FLICKR<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bolded\">Despite the constant change in cultural practices in the Philippines, the celebration of the <em>Buwan ng Wika<\/em> continues to be one of the most awaited and significant\u00a0events\u00a0as the Filipinos strongly value the Filipino language and culture\u00a0that strengthens the country&#8217;s own unique identity.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"bolded\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Written By: Patricia Antoinette M. Nacianceno<br \/>\nImages grabbed from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/news\/photo\/24115\/linggo-ng-wika-observed-in-metro-schools\/photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GMA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caloyp\/2795998727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FLICKR<\/a>; Videos from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCanSUlhgDEwVpNdVEurMA1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get to know some of the common activities in schools during National Language Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730,1729],"tags":[661,229,662],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-history","category-everyday-life-hacks","tag-buwan-ng-wika","tag-filipino-culture","tag-wika"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9471,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/9471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}