A foundation for Pangasinan dialect
Posted on June 3, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Jose Sison Luzadas
Lingayen and Delray Beach, FL
jose-sison@luzadas.net
3 June 2006
Re: A Kabaleyan’s Thoughts…
Abayag co lan nangel tan cabat nipaacar ed say yan tepet? manisia ca ya ondadaiset lay totoon say salita da et Pangasinan?
I do not subscribe to this fear of a vanishing Pangasinan language. AS long as I can find people not necessarily from Lingayen who still speak my dialect, there will be the Pangasinan language alive and well, expected as the rising of the sun and so sure as tomorrow.
I have heard about Speaker Joe de Venecia that his office in Dagupan City is committed to an agenda similar to what Mr. Villafania mentioned about “Pansansiay salitay Pangasinan”.
The Speaker is a proud man from the city, even a prouder “speaker” of the “Pangasinan” language. I would like to see him initiate a more vigorous approach to bring out a healthy atmosphere not just for the continuity of our language, but a living ‘tool’ where our history and culture of our people best be preserved. How about a FOUNDATION?
Seeking the advice and financial help from Pangasinan- speaking Overseas Filipinos who still care for their roots to shore up any financial expense in the maintenance of a “foundation type” similar to the cultural endeavors like Palanca Awards is the best safeguard to ward off any fear of losing one day our own lingua franca.
I may not be a rich man but I feel richer to give my share to enrich and nourish the language I grew up and loved that for many unspoken generation was the language of my ancestors before the Spaniards and Americans showed up in Lingayen Gulf.
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