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| In a message dated 12/17/2004 11:38:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, binisiya@yahoo.com writes: BTW, for those of you who accept the claim by the Commission on Filipino Language that Filipino actually contains "only a little" (45%) Tagalog, please tell me why you don't smell a rat when Cebuano, a major LANGUAGE (not dialect) that rivals Tagalog in number of native speakers, is represented by a palty 526 words (versus 8,463 for Tagalog)?! Tim, in what I understand from the info supplied to us by Art, it is not just 44% of Tagalog that has been incorporated in Filipino. Rather, it is all of Tagalog, 100%. that has been incorporated in it. But Tagalog still comprises just 44 % of the whole Filipino vocabulary, the remaining 45% coming from foreign languages and 11% from the non-Tagalog native languages. That is why we can not accept Filipino as our national language. I think Tagalistas are out to distract us so we can focus on the Taglish issue, which is nowhere in our agenda. Filipino is a virus in the DILA concept of nationalism. It should be removed. Without it, we in DILA would perhaps be the most nationalistic Filipinos around. We will advocate unity among all ethno-linguistic groups and will have more sense of nationalism. Why? Because by then, we can say that we are all really involved and there is no select group among us lording it over. This may be misconstrued as jealousy, but it is actually justice or fairness that we are after. Just why can't our country provide language equality? Why can't the indigenous languages replace Filipino as medium of instruction in schools? Like the Tagalogs that rightly want their language to develop, we too want the same thing for our languages. CabaleRn |
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