Practice question
A language memorandum says the Constitution treats regional languages as wholly illegitimate and excludes them from every instructional role simply because Filipino and English are official languages. The issue is that textual categorical claim, not the details of any grade-level implementing statute. Which answer best states Article XIV, Section 7?
- The text names no regional languages at all.
- Every regional language is constitutionally prohibited.
- The Constitution recognizes regional languages as auxiliary official languages in the regions and auxiliary media of instruction there.
- Only foreign embassies may decide the constitutional language text.
- The provision requires destruction of every regional-language book.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XIV, Sections 1-4 and 7: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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