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| In a message dated 10/14/2004 9:45:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, sumuroy1998@yahoo.com writes: I agree that the central government does influence demographic shifts as a result of policy. Why else is Tagalog, not Cuyonon the main language in parts of Palawan where Cuyonon was previously spoken. Or Renato Tayag's observation that the younger generation in Kapampangan-speaking communities preferred the imperial subdialect instead of their native Kapampangan. Tagalog (or Filipino, as our nationalists love to call it) is being sold for free to all people in the Philippines through our educational system and through the media. It's having been made the national language deprives other languages certain privileges that should have been given to them on their own turf. The tendency of our youth to embrace it in favor of their own language emanates from the message implied in the language policy of the country. The message they get from the non-use and neglect of the local language is that it is a useless one to keep, and that shifting to the national language on a permanent basis rather than shifting back and forth between the two languages they know is kind of neat. It could be that they learn to have this type of attitude in social studies classes. So, guys, we are really getting united and becoming one soul, one language, one nation. Though unspoken and unwritten in our laws, our languages, like the beautiful dandelions on our lawns, are being weeded out to make the grass green and pure in the language landscaping process. Our dandelions are being sprayed with "weed killer". And the youth of the land who has a history of activism directed to many aspects of society seems to be passive and submissive when it comes to the disappearance of their indigenous languages. ********************************************************************************** As regards imperialism on the part of languages that spread to other places, I think all languages have been doing that through the ages. Unless, of course, a language has always been in a certain location since the beginning of time. Kapampangans, for instance, may have come from somewhere else and just settled in the region where they are now considered indigenous. Similarly with Tagalogs, Cebuanos, Warays, etc., on where they live now. They are just indigenous to their present regions in as far as what history knows. We can tolerate the migration of people, but not a policy or law that influences the people on what to speak. |
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