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Q58
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What are the salient provisions of the Philippine National Language Policy according to the 1987 Constitution?
- That the Philippines has a national language (section 6, sentence 1).
- That this national language shall be known as Filipino (section 6, sentence 1).
- That this language shall be developed and enriched on the basis of existing Philippine and other languages (section 6, sentence 2).
- That this language is the medium of official communication (section 7, sentence 1).
- That this language is the medium of instruction (section 7, sentence 1).
- That the government may remove English as an official language (section 7, sentence 1).
- That the regional languages are auxiliary official languages in the region (section 7, sentence 2).
- That the regional languages are auxiliary media of instruction in the region (section 7, sentence 2).
- That the government has an obligation to promote Spanish on a voluntary and optional basis.
- That the government has an obligation to promote Arabic on a voluntary and optional basis.
- That the government has an obligation to establish "a national language commission" to "undertake, coordinate, and promote researches for the development, propagation, and preservation of Filipino and other languages."
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