Have you ever wondered why Filipino "dialects" were considered as dialects and not languages?
Dialect- Linguistics. a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.
Like English in the UK and in the US; or Spanish in Spain and in Argentina. They speak the same language but different dialect.
Now how could these be similar?
(good morning)
Tagalog: Magandang umaga
Ilocano: Naimbag nga bigatyo
Hiligaynon/Ilonggo: Maayong buntag
Kapampangan: Mayap ayabak
They clearly differ in phonology, grammar, and VOCABULARY. I think the Commission on the Filipino Language should have known better before declaring each indigenous "dialects" as dialects. It just makes most Filipinos unaware of what a dialect really is.
Do you agree?
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Exactly. I answered a similar question not too long ago:
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkLA0n8z0m2qCPmkCtMaPr7BFQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20100202074935AAVYtLH&show=7#profile-info-qrbcimLjaa
How about this:
A dialect also refers to a language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of it or in any other sense derived from it.
As you can see, socially subordinate to a "regional" or national standard language.
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that’s the old school of thinking. before, only tagalog is the national language and everything else (cebuano, ilocano, bicol, etc) are dialects.
but in recent years, long debates about this classification. by definition, those regional dialects should be considered languages, together with filipino (our national language per presidential decree).
tagalog, in fact is a dialect because there are differences in the way it is spoken by manilenos, by cavitenos, by batanguenos and the folks from laguna.
the final word from the language police is long overdue.