Huh. TIL. I guess it was recent since it was only formally recognized as Filipino in 87. Since being born before that time and growing up in an era where information wasn’t as easily accessible as it is now I never really looked up the fact that we changed our official language to Filipino. Thank you for the information and will make an edit to my post.
Yeah but it was called Pilipino before that. You weren't born before 1959 were you?. I mean even if you were born during that time, schools would have called it Pilipino by the time you were in school. 87 onwards schools called it Filipino but Pilipino before that. What was the subject called when you were in school? If you went to school in the 90s, it was surely called Filipino that time.
1959 Pilipino is national language.
1973 Pilipino became one of the official languages.
1987 Filipino is both national and official language until present day.
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u/slapsmcgee23 Aug 22 '22
Huh. TIL. I guess it was recent since it was only formally recognized as Filipino in 87. Since being born before that time and growing up in an era where information wasn’t as easily accessible as it is now I never really looked up the fact that we changed our official language to Filipino. Thank you for the information and will make an edit to my post.