Miyerkules, Setyembre 25, 2013

KAPAMPANGAN LANGUAGE

    KAPAMPANGAN
           
               It is one of the famous language in the Philippines It is the language spoken in the province of Pampanga, the southern half of the province of Tarlac, and the northern portion of the province of Bataan. Kapampangan is also understood in some barangays of Bulacan and Nueva Ecija and by the Aitas or Aeta of Zambales. The language is spelled  "Capampangan" and is also called "pampango", and in Kapampangan language : Amanung Sisuan , meaning "the mother language.
             
           

Cebuano Language

 CEBUANO LANGUAGE
       
               Cebuano,referred to by most of its speakers as BINISAYA (or Visayan in English) , is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people, mostly in the Central Visayas , most of whom belong to the Bisaya ethnic group.It is the most widely spoken of the languages within the so-named Bisayan subgroup and is closely related to other Filipino languages.
               
               Cebuano is spoken in CEBU, BOHOL, Negros Oriental, western part of Leyte,some parts of Samar, Negros Occidental, Biliran islands, Southern region of Masbate Island and Mindanao. Some dialects of Cebuano  have different names for the language. Ethnic groups from Bohol may refer to Cebuano as Bol-anon, while Cebuano speakers in Leyte identify  their dialects as KANA (leyteno). Speakers  in Mindanao and Luzon refer to the language  simply as Binisaya or Bisaya, and such calling  has been disagreed  by its  speakers for limiting  the term  to Cebuano only and not to the other Visayan languages, such as Waray-waray and Hiligaynon. 

ilocano language 3rd draf

the original speaknig areas in the provinces of ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur ) are said to speak the" purest"
form of the langauge called by ilocanos nauneg nga  ilokano (deep ilocano ) how ever due to the migration of the ilocos southward nd eastward much of northen Luzon is heavily influnced by ILOCANO Language and culture .

Iloko is an Austronesian language spoken by about 10 million people in the Philippines, mainly in the northwest of Luzon island, and also in Mindanao. There are significant numbers of Iloko speakers in the USA, Middle East, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Canada and Europe as well.
The language is also known as Ilokano, Ilocano, Iluko, Iloco and Iloko, and the Iloko people call themselves Samtoy, a contraction from the Iloko phrase saƶ mi ditoy, meaning "our language here".
Iloko was originally written with the Baybayin syllabary, which is also used to write Tagalog, but this was gradually replaced by the Latin alphabet the Spanish arrived in the Philippines in the 16th century. One of the first publications in Iloko was the Doctrina Cristiana of 1621.


REFFERENCE  
CARL RABINO'S HOMEPAGE PH.D 


EXAMPLE OF THEIR SPOKEN 
 inay-ayat ka-mahal kita
mangan tayon- kain na tayo
adigos kan-maligo ka na
agawid kan- umuwi ka na
 mano-ilan
nalukmeng -mataba 
 

 
 


ilocano language 2nd draf

ILOCANO (spelled ILOKANO in the Philippine orthography with alternative names
ILOKO or I LUKO ) like  all its sister Languages is an Austronesian language of the Philippine
type spoken by about ten Million people it is a member of the Cordillera Language family which comprises
the following Languages of Luzon is Land Philippines

ILOCANO DIALECTS - Because of the remarkable stable of the ILOCANO Language owing the fact
that the ilocano people have populated much of the kailokuan   from a small homogenous homeland dialect diversity is minimal .



EXAMPLE OF THEIR SPOKEN
adayo-malayo
asideg - malapit
nataer- gwapo
maris - kulay
napintas- maganda
awan- wala




REFERENCES:
CARL RABINO'S HOMEPAGE  PH.D 

ilocano language


Martes, Setyembre 24, 2013

Tagalog Language

 TAGALOG
     
        The word tagalog derived from the word "taga" meaning "native of" and ilog meaning "river". Thus it means "river dweller". very litle is known about the history of language. However, according to linguists such as Dr. David Zorc  and Dr. Robert Blust, the tagalog originated, along with their central Philippine cousins, from Northeastern Mindanao or eastern Visayas . the first written record of Tagalog is in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, written in 1900 A.D , using fragments of language along with Sanskrit, Malay, and Javanese.Meanwhile, the firstknown book to be written in tagalog is the Doctrina Christiana  of 1953. it was written in Spanish and two transcription of tagalog; one in the Baybayin script and the other in Latin script. Throughout 33 years of Spanish occupation, there were grammars and dictionaries written by Spanish clergyman such as Vocabularyo de la lengua Tagala  by Pedro de san Buenaventura (Pila, Laguna 1613, Vocabularyo de la lengua Tagala (1835) and Arte de la lengua Tagala y manual tagalog para la administracion de los Santos Sacramentos (1850). Poet, Francisco Baltazar (1788-1862) is regardedas the foremost Tagalog writter. :)

Martes, Setyembre 17, 2013

ilocano language 1st draf

In September 2012, the province of La Union passed an ordinance recognizing Ilokano (Iloko) as an official provincial language, alongside Filipino and English as national and official languages of the Philippines, respectively. It is the first province in the Philippines to pass an ordinance protecting and revitalizing a native languag 
 

The Ilocano or Ilokano people are the third largest Filipino enthnolonguistic  group. Aside from being referred to as Ilocanos (from "i" – 'from', and "looc" – 'bay'), they also refer to themselves as Samtoy, from the Ilocano phrase "sao mi ditoy", meaning 'our language origin'. The word "Ilocano" came from the word "Iloco" or "Yloco."


locanos boast of a somewhat healthy diet heavy in boiled or steamed vegetables and freshwater fish, but are particularly fond of dishes flavored with bagoong fermented fish that is often used instead of salt. Ilocanos often season boiled vegetables with bagoong monamon (fermented anchovy paste) to produce pinakbet Local specialties include the "abuos," soft white larvae of ants, and "jumping salad" or tiny, live shrimp with kalamansi




example of their spoken

Thank you.- Agyamannak apo.
Dios ti agngi
Good afternoon Naimbag a malem mo.
Naimbag a malem yo. (polite and plural)




references :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilokano_language

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