The pattern may have been set by the migration. The depressing fact in Philippine history is what seems to be our native aversion to the large venture, the big risk, the bold extensive enterprise. Those who are interested and can spare 10 minutes of reading time may click on the right hand button. We therefore have decided to present you a teaser only. In an earlier version of this page the whole text of this essay had been included directly into the page. Many, for foreigners so strange behaviors, come into an other light when reading Nick Joaquin. Reading this essay changed my understanding of the people with whom I live. In 1976 Joaquin was declared a National Artist. In 1961 the prize-novel " The Woman Who Had Two Navels" examined the pressures of the past upon the present. Joaquin started to write short stories, poems, and essays in 1934. Joaquin, a lawyer and a colonel of the Philippine Revolution, and Salome Marquez, a schoolteacher. Nick Joaquin was born in Paco on Calle Herran, as the son of Leocadio Y. In the following essay he displays his masterly style in prose. *Quijano de Manila is the pen name of Nick Joaquin, who is considered by many as the best writer in the Philippines today. Magbasa nang higit pa tungkol sa mga wika na sinasalita sa Pilipinas. Tagalog, like its sister Philippine languages, is an Austronesian language distantly related to the languages of most of Indonesia, Madagascar, aboriginal Taiwan, most Pacific isles, and parts of New Guinea. Tagalog is also a morphologically complex, predicate-initial language, in which the predicate (in many cases, a verb) occupies the initial slot of a sentence. Tagalog won, and from this day non-Tagalog first graders are required to learn Tagalog. In the final round were Cebuano, with the largest number of native speakers, and Tagalog, the language of Manila, the capital. Candidates for the title of official language were the eight 'major' languages of the archipelago, having at least one million speakers. On July 4, 1946, Tagálog (Pilipino) was officially declared the national language of the Philippines (wikang pambansâ ng Pilipinas). But most often they vanish with the family's memory. The Philippines count over 90 distinct languages! Still lots of tales and legends are transmitted from grand parents to grand children in precious moments. The language is the primary key to any culture.
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