Wouldn't Spanish be a more appropriate National language to Philippines instead of Tagalog?
Since Spanish was the first official language of the country, united the country, and because it had been official for 400 years. Also Tagalog is based mostly in Luzon and I know Cebuano's resent Tagalog being the National language. Another Reason is because Jose Rizal made Spanish the National language of Philippines.
Hey Damong Ligaw..the only problem with your answer is that Filipino language is based on Tagalog why should Tagalog be above other native languages? When in fact it was the Spanish that united the country.. intendehan?
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No it would not! Damong ligaw has it right.
No. Nobody speaks Spanish and I’ve never met anyone who wanted to learn it.
It would be a blow to the pride of the nation, my friend.
or… how about english as the national language!
Even during the hey days (400+ years) of Spanish rule, Español was never really the language of the entire population of the islands. The Spanish authorities have made sure that only the "illustrados" can speak Español fluently. The "illustrados" were the educated ones and education then was limited to the very few and rich, like Jose Rizal.
The local dialects, including Tagalog, were still what the masses (the majority of the population) continued to use. Hence, they flourished through 400 years of Spanish rule. Up to this day…
When the Americans came, one of their first order of business was to establish a free public school system which taught English to everyone. One of their lasting legacies in the Philippines, if you ask me.
There was a time when Spanish, English and Filipino (Tagalog) were our official national languages. Then they dropped Spanish and rightly so. To be multi-lingual is a big asset nowadays but let it be our choice of what 3rd language we want to learn. The removal of Spanish as a required subject in our school system is a healthy decision. Don’t impose it again on us.
What we need is to strengthen the rich Filipino language, not chunk it.
we have our own language.. so why use Spanish?? do spanish can replace words such as sinangag? tuyo? kakanin?
and spanish is also to knowldegeable persons only in the Philippines during the Spanish era,, meaning many are not able to speak spanish.. it is not known for the common public
and besides the previous campaigns by the Philippine government to promote Spanish as a popular auxiliary language among Filipinos,, all those learned it are not using it.. Therefore, it is useless as being only as an auxiliary language.. What more if it would be the Philippine national language??
a good compromise that the philippine government must do now is to give equal promotion to all Filipino languages? Why not give Filipino (Tagalog) lessons to BIsayas and Bisaya lessons to Tagalogs? So that no one can feel any hatred or bias to the Philippine government.
seems it would be a slap in the face to force spanish as a new national language. based on the fact that spain pretty much ruled for like 300-400 years or something…. ehh just seems wrong to adopt the language of a once conquering country… if it came down to it… id say english would stand a better chance than spanish among most peoples views there. but still a country should have its own language. and it does. it might not be the one that pleases everyone, but something is better than nothing. and id think tagalog should be a better choice than the language of some other country….. by the way im not filipino, just puttin in my 2 cents worth lol….
Filipinos NEVER spoke Spanish. Ask your great great grandma if she can speak that language … you’d be disappointed.
Dead language.
no., filipinos don’t speak spanish, even at the time of the spanish empire in philippines, only the very elite filipinos learned spanish or had any education.
the usa established a us styled national free public education system in the philippines over 100 years ago, that not only taught the english language but provided a uniform general education to filipinos, who have hundreds of differing native dialects.
english, and not spanish, is the most ‘universal’ international language of business and politics. not spanish..
i don’t speak Spanish and i’m sure everyone in my generation (when it wasn’t a compulsory subject in schools anymore in the late 80’s) didn’t even get the chance to learn it.
personally, only an idiot would think it’s a more appropriate national language in this day and age. no one ever said Tagalog is the national language (Filipino is the general term because there are so many languages and dialects), it’s just that every other island that speaks another language or dialect understands it because of nationally televised or circulated media.
and who ever told you that Cebuanos resent Tagalog as the national language? have you even been to Bisaya-speaking places? they actually welcome Tagalog because they can speak and understand both languages to their advantage while the Tagalog people only stick to one language.
No, no, no. There’s no need for the Spanish language to be our National Language. Nobody’s using it and nobody’s interested about it.
Any Filipinos can speak any dialect they want, rather than to abolish the other Filipino dialects and affect their culture.
I think what anyone of us should ask is to still consider English as one of our National language.
No. It is not appropriate.
Nobody speaks Spanish here with the exception of the Chavacano dialect.
Spanish didn’t unite the country. It’s the call to FREEDOM that united this country.
entendehan?
Because there are just so many reaons why it shouldn’t.
And it just seems logical to have Filipino as the National language (as in a language that is a representative of all the languages spoken throughout the archipelago). Of course majority of this language would be taken from Tagalog words & from the other major languages spoken in the Philippines.
idk much about filipino history but i do know that the philippines was ruled by the spainards for a good while. and yes tagalog has some spanish words but not all of it is spanish, so i dont see why it should be the national language for the philippines.
I would Prefer German and Japanese. Reason: so Technical Manuals from their respective products can be easily Read. You could throw in Brazilian Portuguese,Hebrew,Russian,Korean,Italian,French.
These are Languages of Industrial Powers, so for the Insecure ,Idiotic regionalistic Cebuanos and Tagalogs, I suggest you learn Chinese…. So you can be employed as kargadors and tsimoy tsimays by the Chinese,… They can feed you with leftover Chinese ham and tikoys.
if we agree to your suggestion then our official languages would be spanish and english (instead of filipino and english). is that what you’re saying?
this is what i think —
to adopt spanish (again) as a national language is a backward move. it’s like saying "wasn’t that fun during the 400 years when the spaniards were here?… hey, let’s honor our conquerors…let’s be kastilaloy from now on…"
sorry dude. i don’t like the idea.
Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika, daig pa ang hayop at malansang isda." He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. Attributed to Jose Rizal himself. Enough said.
oh yes and following your logic then, either chinese or portuguese should be the phillipines national language because they went first to phillipines
A language that is spoken by a vanishing minority can not conceivably be the National Language.
Oh dear no, the more Filipinos will be mistaken as Mexicans in the US.
why not korean, there are too many of them here in the philippines. pretty soon they will outnumber us.
Not at all. No one wants to speak a language associated with lazy elitists from a former colonial power, which now sits at the bottom of Western European nations in terms of wealth and progress–not the case for those speaking French and English though.
I think lots of infamous lies have been told about the Spanish rule in the Philippines. First o all, it is not true that Spaniards didn’t want Filipinos to learn Spanish, proof of it is the founding of Santo Tomás University in 1611, long before the establishment of most of European universities. Just for you to know, in 1863 Queen Isabel II of Spain decreed the establishment of a public school system, following the requests of the Spanish authorities in the islands, who saw the need of teaching Spanish to the wider population. The primary instruction and the teaching of the Spanish language was compulsory. The Educational Decree provided for the establishment of at least one primary school for boys and girls in each town and governed by the municipal government. So please, stop saying bullshit about Spain and Spaniards! I would like to say something to the one who said the Americans wanted the Philippines to progress…. Please let me laugh at it! That’s why Americans killed nearly 8% of Philippines’s population during the Philippines-American war, that’s why Americans bombed Intramuros during WW2 (curiously killing almost all of the Spanish-speaking families of Philippines, and destroying the most important examples of colonial architecture in Asia…). Accept it, Americans have always treated you as a colony and will continue to do… They didn’t even bother to learn vernacular languages… Americans have stripped Filipinos of an essential part of their past… I’m Spanish, and at least I can read Jose Rizal’s books in their original language which is no other than Spanish… Most of Filipinos have to resign and read translations in Tagalog or English… Shame on you!