What Philippine Dialects Do You Speak?
@alatecablebill (519)
Philippines
September 17, 2009 11:03pm CST
i know tagalog, bisaya, ilonggo, and cebuano. my parents are bisaya/ilonggo and they use those dialects when they're talking to each other or to our aunts and uncles. what about you?
9 responses
@anib1227 (77)
• Philippines
18 Sep 09
Hi alatecablebill, first I never described our languages as dialects. Dialects are inferiors to languages. I'm a bilingual by birth, Ilokano and Pangasinan. I've known tagalog and english as they were enforced in schools. I could understand some of Cebuano and its derivatives.
Can I ask one? What is the difference of Bisaya and Cebuano, Is Cebuano a dialect of Bisaya?
@agv0419 (3022)
• Philippines
18 Sep 09
Cebuano they consider it Bisaya because most part of Visayas spoke Cebuano that's why they called it Bisaya. I can speak a little of Ilonggo and I understand it also because both of my parents are Ilonggo when our relatives coming over with us they speak Ilonggo so little by little I learn to understand what they are talking about. My parents never spoke or teach us how to speak Ilonggo because we grew in Manila the dialect that we use is Tagalog. We live in a compound which our neighbors are Ilocanos. I can understand also Cebuano because Ilonggo is similar to it.
@diggityjed (107)
• Philippines
18 Sep 09
My father is froM bicol and my mother is froM iloilo but i dont know either of their language lol
Because i was born and raise in bulacan didnt have the chance to learn any of 2.
@SeishiroX (1093)
• Philippines
19 Sep 09
I was born in Negros Occidental, but was raised here in Cebu. My mother tongue would be Cebuano, but I learned Ilonggo due to my frequent summer vacations in my parents' home province. As a Filipino, I can speak the national language with a certain degree of fluency. I learned a bit of Surigao as well but I don't practice it.
@ckyera (17331)
• Philippines
18 Sep 09
my mother tongue is Tagalog for i was born and raise in Southern Tagalog Region...
but since i got married i was able to learn speaking and understand Cebuano and Bisaya...its because my husband is from Cagayan de Oro City in Mindanao and now we are living here in Cebu...and so its a must for me to learn their dialect...
@involved62 (790)
•
18 Sep 09
Like you, Tagalog, Ilonggo, Cebuano. My father is from the north (Pangasinan) and my mother is a transplant from Marikina, Rizal and San Juan (We are from Davao City, or at least used to love there). I never managed to speak Pangalatok though It sounds to me like Pangalatok is the German equivalent in RP. Very hard to pronounce and remember.
@aicasalinks (303)
• Philippines
18 Sep 09
I speak Tagalog and Ilokano. I am from La Union which is within the Ilocos Region (Region 1). Ilokanos are located in Regions 1,2 and some parts of region 4. I know a few words in Cebuano language.
@martinatintin (85)
• Philippines
18 Sep 09
I know some but not many and these are Hiligaynon/Ilongo, tagalog that's it!
@saluyot (63)
• Philippines
18 Sep 09
i speak--and think in-- the ilokano language, being an ilokano. i know also tagalog and a bit of bikol. i only speak tagalog when i'm talking to a tagalog or other person who don't understand ilokano.
by the way, the so-called "filipino" which is climed by some as the "national language" is just a dialect (or sub-dialect; dialect is distinct from the language) of tagalog.
