ZAMBOANGA CITY— Chavacanos are beaming with pride at the fate of a local college acoustic band that used to take small gigs just to get their songs heard. Maldita (crafty in Mexican Spanish) has been ...

Keeping up with its goal of normalizing regional languages in mainstream pop, the multilingual pop boy band Alamat puts the spotlight on Chavacano with its latest single, “Porque.” Originally recorded ...

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines —Noting that the use of Chavacano is eroding among younger generations, senatorial candidate Ben BITAG Tulfo is pushing the preservation of the language. Chavacano is used ...

ZAMBOANGA CITY (PIA) – With deep pride in its heritage, the City Government here marked the 14th Chavacano Foundation Day, a celebration of the enduring legacy and cultural significance of Asia’s only ...

Cavite City is home to plenty of Chavacano speakers. But what once was a thriving language may be on its way out. INQUIRER.net takes a #LookThrough Cavite’s Chavacano language and how one community is ...

Jehovah’s Witnesses are translating publications from English to at least 23 local dialects, an effort which also contributes to preserving Philippine languages and culture. Although the Witnesses ...

On a rainy Saturday afternoon in Quezon City, at the Erehwon Center for the Arts in Old Balara off Commonwealth Avenue, it is possible to see all the way to Zamboanga. This is so because on the last ...

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—A Canadian Catholic priest is reviving a radio drama in this city in a bid to preserve the Chavacano language. “This is one treasure of Zamboanguenos,” said Fr. Arthur ...

Senatorial candidate Ben Tulfo has called for the protection and preservation of the Chavacano language in Zamboanga City. According to Tulfo, the Chavacano language is gradually disappearing among ...

TV Patrol Chavacano is the local news program of ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in Zamboanga Peninsula aired on ABS-CBN TV-3 Zamboanga and simulcast on TV-10 Jolo and on radio via MOR 98.7 Zamboanga ...