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Linguistic Society of the Philippines

In a country where more than one hundred languages are spoken, Filipino linguists have their job cut out for them. There are a number of linguists in the Philippines – linguists are those people who study and analyze languages scientifically and they should not be confused with polyglots, people who can speak many languages – and some 400 belong to the Linguistic Society of the Philippines.

The organization was the brainchild of Dr.

Bonifacio Sibayan of the Philippine Normal College (now University) and Dr. Ernesto Contantino of the University of the Philippines, two linguists who were working on their respective research projects in the Pacific and Asian Languages Institute of the University of Hawaii in 1968.

Far away from home and very conscious of the linguistic work going on in the US, they had several discussions on the need for an organization of linguists that would do research a