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Tagalog term or phrase:
balikas
English translation:
Balikas
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FionaDV (X)
Apr 4, 2006 11:28
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balikas
Nang dumalaw ang Balikas sa Sentro kamakailan, ay nakita namin kung bakit ginawaran ito ng karangalang nabanggit.
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Balikas
Could it be this:
http://www.bwf.org/balikas/
What's Balikas?
We coined "Balikas" from Tagalog words "balik" (return) and "likas" (nature).
Balikas, a weekly newspaper distributed in the Philippines' CALABARZON region (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon provinces) used to be known as Balik Kalikasan.
It chronicles peoples' progress in confronting environmental and social issues.
OR this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUMIL_Filipinas#Balikas
Balikas is the official publication of GUMIL Filipinas. Published forthnightly, some issues of Balikas is available through its online edition
http://balikas.sphosting.com/
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Note added at 13 mins (2006-04-04 11:41:44 GMT)
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According to this blog http://dalityapi.blogspot.com/2002/02/balikas-poetry-in-pang... it also means poetry in Pangasinense. :)
http://www.bwf.org/balikas/
What's Balikas?
We coined "Balikas" from Tagalog words "balik" (return) and "likas" (nature).
Balikas, a weekly newspaper distributed in the Philippines' CALABARZON region (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon provinces) used to be known as Balik Kalikasan.
It chronicles peoples' progress in confronting environmental and social issues.
OR this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUMIL_Filipinas#Balikas
Balikas is the official publication of GUMIL Filipinas. Published forthnightly, some issues of Balikas is available through its online edition
http://balikas.sphosting.com/
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Note added at 13 mins (2006-04-04 11:41:44 GMT)
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According to this blog http://dalityapi.blogspot.com/2002/02/balikas-poetry-in-pang... it also means poetry in Pangasinense. :)
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Comment: "Thanks, Fiona, you're actually right. Realized I'm translating articles from a provincial Caviteno(?) publication. Hence the non-Manileno idioms."
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