Popular culture: Many around the world now know of the Filipino word ‘kilig’—that giddy, sugar-rush feeling when something romantic happens to you or to your favourite character on TV.
Buwan ng Wika – Philippine Language Month celebration – has me musing about how our country’s languages are so rich and emotive, rife with words for the many gradients of human feeling.
It’s a reflection of us as a sentimental, emotion-driven people, and being aware of how expressive our dialects are may help us appreciate them more.
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