Prof. Kitano on Kapampangan Language

News coverage of Prof. Kitano Hiroaki's lecture "What Kapampangans don't know about their language".

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Kapampangan
• Austronesian
• Linguistics

[ThtOnePinoy]

@juanawut It is sad is it not?

[galahad143]

@ThtOnePinoy check my videos....there is a waray song there.

[ThtOnePinoy]

@galahad143 Hmm, can you give examples of waray? :D I never heard waray before...

[galahad143]

I am waray and the kapampangan language sounds like a dialect of North Vietnam or Laos whereas Tagalog sounds Indonesian or Malaysian. Waray on the other hand sounds a bit of Japanese, Surigaonon sounds Guamanian and Cebuano sounds like a dialect of Chinese and all have Spanish and English words which makes it understandable to all.

[akosigundam]

@ThtOnePinoy: That may be, but it is still NOT Filipino. The civilization that you speak of - if it DID exist - is only part of our diverse past, and cannot represent the country as a whole.

[akosigundam]

@ThtOnePinoy: Well, I believe that our hispanic heritage IS what makes us Filipino. Before that... we weren´t Filipino but Capampangans, Tagalogs, Mangyans, Ivatans, and Maranaos.

[ThtOnePinoy]

@akosigundam because of the number of filipinos with colonial mentality who value foriegn hispanic culture, rather than our native culture which had a good prosperous history before, this is what happens... that is the sad truth, but the number of filipinos, even from that same number, are starting to realize thier heritage.

[obalajadia]

Sana mengamanu ya Prof Kitano keng Kapampangan anggiyang ditak mu ba lang lakwas mangapakarine reng tawung sasabing lulugud keng sarili rang amanu dapot e re man pin gagamita keng pang-aldo-aldo biye ra. Ne?

[akosigundam]

Damn, it had to take a Japanese to open the Cabalens eyes. This speaks volumes how little we value our native languages (everything other than Tagalog).

His English isn't that bad either.