Mr. Faelnar,

Thank you very much for sharing with us your
"panyeros" email message -- eye opening thoughts about
what is happening to our mother tongue.

Gave me many things to think about, including the
value of the culture of different societies here in
the Philippines.

And I truly appreciate Mr. Eliezer Arnejo's forwarding
your mail to me. The thing he's doing helps us
continue to grow in our knowledge and wisdom.

I am realizing how important and valuable the
bisaya_reader's group is. As soon as I get free time I
would also like to share my thoughts with you all.

Daghang salamat,

Joe














--- Manuel Faelnar <manuelfaelnar@...> wrote:

> I would like to share with you this very interesting
> and keen observation by
> a Waray who now lives abroad, about the loss of the
> Mother tongue or
> its bastardization.
>
> Manuel
>
> --- In DILFED@yahoogroups.com, "Adelbert, Adelbert
> Batica, Batica"
> <basaynon49@...> wrote:
>
> 'panyero -
>
> It's a reality that the mother tongue is now getting
> marginalized by
> taga-ilog, and yes - by da english. It's happening
> in Samar-Leyte,
> where people speak sagol-sagol in the cities and in
> the bigger towns.
> And why not, with TV bombarding us with taglish,
> waraylish,
> etclaylish. Worse, when parents speak mish-mash at
> home and at the
> dinner table, what do we expect, then?
>
> In the old days when people spoke more spanish, more
> writings, more
> literature written in the vernacular was
> commonplace. Our own
> literary giants in Spanish like Norberto Romualdez,
> Jaime de Veyra,
> Iluminado Lucente and Eduardo Makabenta were also
> giants of
> Waray-Waray literature. I don't know if we have
> giants in English
> literature these days in Region 8, but I can bet you
> a dime to a
> dollar that the same folks who are adept at writing
> in English won't
> be as agile in Waray-Waray.
>
> What to do? Well, if the national government is
> obstinate, if local
> governments are also obstinate and are either
> lukewarm or hesitant to
> promote the mother languages, then it behooves the
> rest of the
> citizenry who are passionate about the mother tongue
> to promote it,
> "up the ante", by offering proper instruction in the
> first language,
> even on a pro bono basis. All modesty aside, I did
> not have to go to
> school to learn Waray-Waray, I'm comfortable
> speaking and writing it,
> simply because my command of the language was
> sharpened at home, not
> elsewhere.
>
> If we are passionate about mother language, then
> we'll just have to
> step up to the plate to bat.
>
> El Jarabas de Samar
>
>
>
>
> --
> Manuel Lino G. Faelnar
>
> Chairman for Language and Culture,
> Federalist Forum of the Philippines
>
> Director
> DILA Phils. Foundation, Inc.
> (Defenders of the Indigenous Languages of the
> Archipelago)
>
> Director
> Lubas sa Dagang Bisaya, Inc. (LUDABI)
>
> "Without our language, we have no culture, we have
> no identity, we are
> nothing."
> Ornolfor Thorsson, adviser to President of Iceland.
>
> "When you lose a language you lose a culture,
> intellectual wealth, a work of
> art."
> Kenneth Hale, who taught linguistics at MIT.
>
> "Words, if powerful enough, can transport people
> into a journey,
> real or imagined, that either creates
> a fantasy or confirms reality."
> Rachelle Arlin Credo, poet and
> writer.
>
> .
>



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