April 24, 2008 in Multiculturalism by admin
Tagalog is eighth language in Australia, second in Blacktown
THE AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS in latest Census reported that Tagalog (Filipino) is the eighth non-English language spoken at Australian homes.
The Census, taken in 2006, also reported that of the 18.9 million respondents, 15% or 2,853,851 reported as speaking a non-English in their homes.
The seven other non-English languages are Italian (12.4%), Greek (9.2%), Cantonese (7.9%), Arabic (7.3%), Vietnamese (6.1%), Mandarin (4.9%) and Spanish (3.3%).
Tagalog (Filipino) accounted for 2.8% of the relevant respondents group. German ranked number nine followed with a close 2.7% of the respondents group.
By region, Blacktown has reported to have the highest concentration of Census respondents speaking Tagalog (Filipino). The ABS statistics revealed that 5.7% of the people in the region speak the language at home. Arabic followed a distant 3.2% second non-English language spoken in the region.
The reported ranking of Tagalog (Filipino) as a non-English language spoken in Australia compares favourably with that in the United States.
According to the 1990 and 2000 United States Census, Tagalog is the sixth non-English language spoken in America, and the second most commonly-spoken Asian language (after Chinese) in the United States. #
April 2, 2008 in Mobile Log by admin
Poetry in motion, literally
Poetry enthusiasts and emanilapoetry members can now have full access to www.emanilapoetry.com using their mobile phones. Recently re-launched by Team Emanila, the poetry site’s mobile version uses a WordPress PDA plugin.
“We are slowly reaping the benefits of migrating our site to WordPress,” says emanila publisher, Romy Cayabyab.
“The WP PDA is just one of the many plugins ~ developed by the WP community ~ that we have installed in the poetry site. The current site is definitely more flexible and writer-friendly that it was last year.
“The WP install was the overwhelming favorite of our Writers Group members when asked during a targeted online survey in July 2007.”
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