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Commission on the Filipino Language

The Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino in Filipino, Comision na Salitan Filipino in Pangasinan) is the official regulating body of the Filipino language and the official government institution tasked with developing, preserving, and promoting the various local Philippine languages.[1] It was established in accord with the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines and earlier in the 1930s as the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa.

One major criticism of the Commission is that it does not really do its job in developing the Filipino language. This is grounded in the fact that Filipino, to this day, is essentially Tagalog, a fact acknowledged by its current commissioner, Ricardo Maria Duran Nolasco,[2] and with an impoverished technical and scientific vocabulary, at that, which relies heavily on foreign borrowings and, often, constructions. It is often left to the universities to develop their own respective terminologies for each field, leading to a lack of uniformity and opposition from speakers of local Philippine languages.

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