well u could guess what i am.

I'm part Ilocano and Surigaonon

Panggasinan, ilocano, Cebuano, Manilenio...

Sa aking pamilya, ako LANG ang ipinanganak na Marikeno...

Mga kapatid kong mga babae ay ipinanganak sa Maynila...

i consider myself more a filipino of pangasinan descent.. but im told my other relatives are from cebu/negros occ. as well... but i don't really consider myself from there, but even my last name is a native cebuano/(sugbuhanon) word! haha...

and im also half chamorro from guam, hehe

^ pangasinan represent! lol!

pangasinan - holla WHHAAAAAAAAAT?!!

makapalek kayo

si dalawapo so makapalek ya lanang! iner ed Pangasinan so nan lapuan mo ey BatangDamo? Nan lapuan ak dyed Manaoag.

uragon ini!

bicolana!

ano sabe mo? what dah hell? hindi ko alam .....

speak english, please???

lol ugh.

ahaha! akala ko marunong si dalawapo salita na yun. .

tagalog po... bulakeña

dimad lingayen

taga bicol ka bay? kamau ka ba mag binisaya? asa ka sa bicol? murag libat na si dalawapo...

yaon ako ngonian digdi sa lugar kun saen madugo an naging world war II

nyak! dai man ako nakakaintindi nin bisaya, dawa ngani nin bisakol.

di ako marunong ng salitang bisaya.

lol!! oh man, you're soo innocently clueless! so cute! I could just imagine you must have an accent too! heheh we weren't even speaking in Tagalog but in Pangasinan.


BatangDamo, balibali siyo beach yo ditan!

twa, asumpal lay pistay dayat.......

well what did you guys say huh?

^ nada!!!

I guess Im Visayan because both my parents came from the Visayas.

what part of the bisayas?

My dad is from the Negros and my mom is from Antique. But I was born in Manila, does that still make me Visayan?

im part Chinese, Tausug, Ilocano, Boholano.. im pretty much a mixed breed! haha pero i live in Bohol and im proud to be Bisaya! lupig sila!!!

comment on dalawapo's Sig on the 8 Austro..:
although Tagalog has 10.5 million people speaking it, the Visayan language (and it's sub-versions like Cebuano, Bol-anon(Boholano), etc) is spoken more widely than Tagalog. it just happens na Official language siya ng 'pinas.. unless of course the 10.5 million people speaking it uses the pure Tagalog. purong puro.. hehe oh btw, bisaya is spoken in visayas and mindanao and some parts of luzon.

no, that just makes you ejay1.

Forumwalker said:



oh cool, well i got that list from a website. I guess they are going by population of the country when they made the list and assume those ppl all speak the national language. I read that Cebuano was a strong contender when the new philippine government was deciding on which language should be the lingua franca for the whole country. From what i read, Tagalog was choosen because it had the longest literature heritage of all languages of the Philippine islands and that was already widely used during the spanish revolution movement and i think i read that Tagalog was not as diversifed in dialect as the Bisaya languages. Are Filipinos today still in discontent about Tagalog being chosen as the National language?

who's that

yeah Tagalog was chosen because it had more written literature compared to Bisaya which is basically a spoken language. i'd have to agree with Tagalog as the major dialect used in creating the Filipino language since Bisaya has too many versions and shortcuts. and besides, it's difficult to spell what you say in Bisaya. it's just like French. hehe

fluent in tagalog, bisaya, pangasinense...

does cebuano have the same type of contructs as tagalog such as gender neutral noun/prounon, can you translate a sentence....

ok can all filiinos who speak a different filipino language translate these sentence in their language:

Maria and Darell ran up the hell.

He ran up the hill.

She ran up the hill.

hehe...

siguro dapat topic titlte dito ay...
"speak your own dialect"!!! lol

Ang nanay ko Bicolana from Camarines Sur pero ipinanganak ako sa Cavite City.

Uragon man ini! yehey!

Taga-Rinconada pa! kung saan maninigas ang panga mo sa pagsasalita ng subdialect namin...

pansinin po, "subdialect"

Filipino: Tagalog
: Pangasinense (tama ba? sowee)
: Waray
: Bicol : Bicol Naga
: Bicol Albay
: Bicol Rinconada : Buhinun <--- ako yan!

i was born in manila. my mom and dad are from two different towns in pangasinan. my mom speaks bolinao and i understand that language completely. my dad speaks pangasinan and i dont understand it.

where is boliano spoken?

at bolinao...i dont know the "official" name for the dialect but that's what i call it.

I am from Taytay some of my relatives are from batangas

mama is from davao city, davao del sur (in mindanao) and daddy is a tagalog--from bulacan/nueva ecija up north. i was born in davao and lives in manila.

hey man, i was born in davao too, we lived there in matina. do know how to speak bisaya?

matina? i hear that place a couple of times when we last visited the place. we live in san pedro st. actually, it's my grandma's place.

mmm... nope, i don't speak bisaya but i understand it a little.

i'm visayan also , my mom from duero, bohol and my dad from guindulman
my grandpa from mindanao and not sure for my grandma
oh yea, some relatives in tagbilaran and manila also

The only family I knew is from my mom's side....which is(still) from Pangasinan.

pangasinannnnn wwwwwwwwwwwwwwuuuuuuuuuuuuuhttttttt... *throws up gang signs*

tga-tagbilaran ko dong! hehe bisdak sad d i ka?

wow! welcome eclectic asian! two AFers are from bohol... how cool

i'm waray-waray, and ilongo-ilocano, who was born and raised in manila

wow waray-waray. tell us about it!

Really??? You're waray-waray??? Wow, me too. Well my parents actually, coz I can't really speak Waray but I can understand it. Where abouts in Samar or Leyte u frm???

so uh are there any t'bolis or other minority in here? hehe holla & represent!

my dad's dad is from jaro, leyte and my grandma is from somewhere in leyte, but he's pretty much grown up in manila, or around the tagalog region, like rizal and such other places bulacan, quezon,. he don't really talk but he understand it, and therfore he also understand pretty much all other visayan dialect, since they're pretty much similar. my mom was born and raised in manila her mom is ilonggo and something else and her dad is porgee, or portuguese, and ilocos norteno. she don't understand or speak ilocano, but her siblings do, since some are grown in by their grandparents in ilocos, while one of her sister use to speak fluent bicolano, because she spent some time with my grandma's step mother who's from albay or sorsogon. i myself only speak tagalog, fluently but since i moved here when i finally talked in filipino after several years of not spekaing it regularly i found out that speaking it was more harder than i thought. i took four years of j@p too.

^i read that the Tinikling dance originates in the island of Leyte, can you tell me what you know about the dance and its origins in Leyte?

*EDIT*

2nd question: do the ethnic Tagalogs also speak the Filipino langauge??