Ka is for Kinetic kali combat showing the country’s national martial arts. ‘Ba’ is for barefoot bounding while dancing the Tinikling. It starts with ‘A’ for abaca accessories that many can admire for its beauty and sustainability. In just a minute, the ABaKaDa music video is able to talk about 20 unique cultural facts about the Philippines represented by each letter of the Philippine alphabet. Department of Tourism unveils new ad inspired by the ABaKaDa alphabet, highlighting unique Filipino culture Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika ay higit sa hayop at malansang isda.ĭoes not love his own language is more than like animals and rotting fish.Makati City – Culture buffs around the globe can now learn the ABCs of the Philippine culture as the Department of Tourism (DOT) unveils its newest ad at the Culture Launch on Thursday, February 27, held at the Shooting Gallery Studio in Makati City. I love my country and also the our Wikang Filipino. I'm proud that our language can easily adopt the different language of near country or even the world. Here the example: The word is the same pronunciation but the spelling change. To cope with the demands of modernization, the commission of the Filipino language was file the 2001 Revision of the Alphabet and the Guidance of the Spelling of the Filipino language. If you pronounced the letters it's pronounce English except Ñ it's pronounce 'enye'. The added 8 letter are C, F, J, Ñ, Q, V, X and Z. That's why the 20 letter of the Abakada is now 28 letters. We use the abakada everyday because our country national language is Filipino/Tagalog means 'Taga-ilog' or near the river.īecause of the fastest changing of technology and science, different tribe language and foreign language start changing the Filipino language. The writing of the old alibata transferred to the word of the romans started in 1600 and the linguistic history written in the time of Romanization.

The alibata composed of seventeen letters, the fourteen letter is consonant and the three letter is vowel. In the past decade, Philippines alphabet also evolve from they called alibata, abakada and now the alphabet.īefore the Spanish seize the our country, their have old language our ancestors use. ( Alibata - the old alphabet of the Philippines)

Abakada alphabet