(plural minuets) 1  A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupÃÂ©, a high step, and a balance. ( music) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
In the Philippines, due to a history of multiple settlements, more than 170 languages ââare spoken and only 2 of them are official in the country: Filipino and English. With very little written, not much is known about this language for the history prior to the arrival of the Spanish during the sixteenth century.
For more than 3 centuries Spanish was the official language of the Philippines and became the lingua franca in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But after the occupation of the Americans in the 1940âs and the obligation of using English, Spanish declined steadily.