Two songs whose titles coincidentally start with “Ikaw” won the major trophies at the 44th Cebu Popular Music Festival on Friday, January 16, at the gymnasium of the University of the Visayas-Main ...

Filipino devotees across Australia gather to celebrate the Sinulog Festival, the annual feast honoring the Santo Niño.

CEBU CITY, Philippines — For centuries, the devotion to the Santo Niño de Cebu has been expressed not only in processions, ...

Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he developed the "Avatar" aliens' language. "It's been quite a remarkable event in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

CEBU, Philippines — There was a time in the mid-20th century when Cebuano cinema was not just a community, but an industry capable of competing with Manila-made films. Today, however, it is an almost ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...

A collage of Baybayin characters, a Tagalog proverb, and Cebuano and Ilocano greetings surrounding the word “Filipino.” The Baybayin symbols are shown as a representation of the pre-colonial script, ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...