Hi there, I'm trying to learn how to speak Illicono. Is there anyone that can help point me in the right direction? I've googled it many times and I haven't found a site or a CD that may help me. If anyone has any good suggestions please let me know. Thanks a bunch

find someone who can speak it... my father is an ilocano and speaks ilocano, but i don't understand him alot :P

A Hmong with an interest in a Filipino language...interesting. Maybe felltohell can help you out. Knows a lot of different languages.

I don't understand Ilocano too... but hope this link help a little..

http://www.villangela.com/simple-ilocano.htm

Dios ti agngina, Apo..

you can go to this site www.ilocano.org

you can ask the people there what you want to know about Ilocano language, they even have Ilocano-English dictionary in there. But be warned: don't post in Tagalog or else you'll be banned.

I speak Ilocano, Im from Ilocos Norte. Go read our Bannawag magazine.

Thank you all for trying to help me. I will surly use the resouces that you guys have given me. But Jake my future mother and father in laws are Filipino who speak Ilcono, and I know how it feels to have language as a barrier and I would like elimiate the barrier and also to be as personal as possible with my soon to be family.

trivia
some terms in ilocano that are "r" but "g" in tagalog
baro-bago(new)

thats really retarded!

LOL, speak english then so you don't get banned. you can hardly speak tagalog anyway!

The Ilocano word for "water" is danum. "Tubir" is not an Ilocano word.




the reason why posting in Tagalog is not allowed: there used to be another Ilocano forum owned by the same owner of ilocano.org, he wants to promote Ilocano language to non-Ilocano speakers, but soon that Ilocano forum had became a Tagalog forum. That's why he doesn't allowed posting Tagalog in Ilocano.org.

Uray siac! Ilocano-ac met.

i speak ilocano but not sure if i'm any good.

Lets find out, ania ti ili mo ading?

yes, i agree with that
mali pala yun....

ilog is the word for lake in ilocano perhaps ilog used to be a term for lake(laguna de bai) in tagalog but semantically shifted....

tagalogs live in an area by the laguna de bai perhaps tagalogs call themselves tagalog bcoz of this....

diay Pilipinas, Cagayan Valley, Tuguegarao City and diay Barangay mi Pussian, Alcala.
ditoy US...taga San Jose, CA...ngem ag move nak san..adu unay ti earthquake kada uram....scary!! ngem agurnong nak pay ti kwarta tapno agawid nak pilipinasen...i really like it there except diay pudot. too napudot diay.

i can speak ilocano but i cant write and could barely read it..

i went home to La Union last month for our Barrio Fiesta and OMG!!! i was bored..i was more irritated to hear everyone speak in ilocano..the whole program that i had was in ilocano..sooo when they played "an-nay pusok, an-nay an-nay" i sure sang that shiet coz my ears were hurting with all the ilocano words i could barely undertand... some people looked at me weird..but most of the kids just laughed coz they knew my ears were hurting...pssstt

Is that what they speak in Illinois?

No seriously though, Ilocano is so foreign to me. At least bisaya I can kind of pick up on. Ilocano is like WHOAH WTF.

oh well, he should have been admit and enforce the rules or could have made section for Tagalog speakers.

^LOL. WHy would he bother to create a Tagalog forum when there's PEX, Grabeh, SUlit, Talk.ph?

not another forum but a section.

Why create a section when there are bunch of Tagalog forums out there? Forums in Visayan, Ilonggo, Ilocano, Pangasinenser aren't as much as forums in Tagalog.

If you want to post in Tagalog, then go to another forum. No one's forcing someone to join Ilocano.org, anyway. Besides, English is used, why bother.

BTW, the forum isn't purely Ilocano. They have subsections for Ibanag.

Nope, but my cousins do because they're Ilocano. I can only count 1-10 in Ilocano, ask someone's name "Anya ti nagan mo?", and let's eat "Mangan tayon!"

Wow you're from La Union? Which part? My cousins are from Bangar, which is right near the border with Ilocos Sur.

Ay! Naadayu ka gayam ading. Siak, taga Dagupan, Pangasinan nak. Basit kami nga Ilocano speakers idiay Dagupan, ngem nasiaat met.
Uray no napudot, no makitam ti pamilya mo manen ti nagganas!

^I'm surprised that there are Ilocano speakers in Dagupan. I mean, whenever I go there, everybody speaks Pangasinense. Never talked to someone there in Ilocano.

ummmmm no.

yup, adayu. di met nabagyo kayo diay Pangasinan? immay nak ditoy states idi ubing nak pay laeng..mga 10 years old....sakit ti nakem ko idi agsubli nak ditoyen....di ko kayat ti agsublin...ngamin ma miss ko dagidiay relatives ko....they treated us all so nice that i didn't want to come back here....was very sad! amin nga katulong mi...sangit da nga pumanaw kamin...was very sad!!

There are plenty of Ilocanos in Dagupan, most are business owners(Chinese-Ilocanos) and students and most are also fluent in Pangasinese, like my family. Even the Ilocano that I speak would probably be considered as a dialect of Ilocano since it's mixed with Pangasinese.

Napalalo ti bagyo tatay, cuna ni pamilya ko no timawagac idiay ayan mi. Uray siak, ubingac idi no imayac idtoy America. Siguro, 5 nga taon ac idi. Ngem, malagip ko ti nagadu uray ibingac idi. Cacaasi met dagita casinsin ken nanay/tatay ko no nagawidac idtoy USA, casangsangit da met.

well, i'm going back in 2 years. i can't go next year because i'm going to europe for 3 weeks and i don't want to pay a bunch of penalties if i have to cancel. i'm also planning to retire in the Phils. it will be very cool, i like it in the phils better than here in the US.

somebody please change the title... there's no Illicono dialect here in the Phils