I'm a native speaker of Cebuano, a language in the Philippines, and though Bisaya is in itself considered a language (as it should!), some linguists apparently think that Cebuano-Waray-Hiligaynon-etc. (the Visayan languages) form more of a dialect continuum than being a group of separate languages. Like dialects of Bisaya, the language.

I'd accept that for Hiligaynon, because as a Cebuano speaker I've had a full conversation with a Hiligaynon speaker without even realizing (it was pretty confusing but overall intelligible). Waray-Waray, on the other hand... I've had conversations with Waray people and the words are incredibly different. I think it's a totally different language from Cebuano and Hiligaynon. I'd accept Cebuano and Hiligaynon as dialects of each other, but Waray-Waray? I don't think so....

Why is it so different? Was there a different civilization/culture in Leyte before, separate from the nearby Visayan islands?

I'm from Southern Leyte, but I know that I speak Cebuano due to migration, so the question is still worth asking.

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is looking for native Hiligaynon speakers to serve as part-time language proficiency testers. You must be based in the U.S., have valid work permission in the U.S., and attend one in-person training session, with all expenses paid by ACTFL.

At the in-person training, you’d learn how to use a rating scale of speaking proficiency. Then, once someone needs to be rated, you’d talk on the phone with someone who is learning Hiligaynon and determine that person’s speaking rating. We don’t expect you’d have more than a few of these appointments per month, with each lasting about 30 minutes.

Attending an ACTFL language proficiency tester training is an opportunity to support learners of your native language, meet language professionals, and become involved in the work of a highly recognized foreign language association. There is payment available for undergoing this training; in addition, certified language testers are paid per test conducted.

Go to the application at https://www.actfl.org/professional-development/training-certification/ilr-opi-candidate-application for more information.

ACTFL is a US-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction.

1. Offer regional language electives in high school alongside foreign languages
2. Have the KWF standardize their vocabularies and grammars
3. Promote their usage, especially the lesser, single-province ones, in media
4. Arsenal

What do you think?

Hello all,

I am relocating to Iloilo next year and I want to learn how to speak Ilonggo fluently. There are not a lot of resources online. I want to pickup the language quickly and feel a in-person tutor would be the way to go.

Does anyone know of a tutor or classes I can take to learn this language.

May napansin akong pattern sa "ano" sa ibang interrogatives:

Sino = si + ano Sino yung lalaki? Si ano yung lalaki? Si Samuel yun.

Saan = sa + ano? Saan siya pupunta? Sa ano siya pupunta? Sa bahay niya.

Kanino = kay + ano Kanino itong damit? Kay ano itong damit? Kay Samuel.

Gaano at Paano ay may "ano" din.

Ang "Paano" ba ay "paraan + ano"? Kasi ang sagot sa "paano" ay halos sa anong paraan eh.

Sa "gaano" naman, may napansin ako sa adjectives na halos ma prefix na ka-.

Gaano ka-ganda Gaano ka-taas Gaano ka-lalim

Ang "g" and "k" ay parang pareho sa pagpronounce pero ang "g" ay kasama ang boses at "k" ay hindi.

Just wondering if anyone has the same experience me. Basically, I was never "taught" my native language - Hiligaynon. I'm not sure if there's even a course for it. Everything I know, I know through experience. I spoke in it all the time up until high school. I would exchange short notes and text messages in shorthand with fellow speakers and that's the most writing/reading I've encountered in my language.

For every other language I know and use, I was taught at school and had loads of resources to learn and practice with except actual people who are fluent in the language (not counting the teachers). English had the most use, so I was better at it first. Then Filipino when I moved to the capital.

Now I'm wondering if there's a course for my language (I'll be looking it up) and if it would be useful to actually know the formal grammar, spelling, etc...

I'm actually kinda scared of losing it since it's no longer the default language used at home and I have little hope that my son will learn it from me.

I noticed most of the time Philippine languages barely has any one word syllable aside from particles, pronouns and contractions.

First Resource Page

All Shared Posts Here Tagged as "Resources"

Digital Libraries with Fil Hist contents, search etc.:

JSTOR (free subscription 100x articles/ mon). Includes journals like Philippine Studies, PH Quarterly, etc.

Academia.edu (bunch of materials published by authors, many in academia who specialize in PH subjects)

ResearchGate (similar to those above, also has a phone app)

HathiTrust (browse through millions of digitized books etc. eg. Lietz' Eng. trans. of Munoz' print of Alcina's Historia is in there)

Internet Archives (search through billions of archived webpage from podcasts to books, old tomes, etc). Part of which is Open Library, where you can borrow books for 14 days digitally (sign up is free).

PLOS Journal (search thousands of published peer reviewed scientific journals, eg genomic studies of PH populations etc.)

If you have Google account:

Google Scholar (allow you find 'scholarly' articles and pdf's versus trying to sift thru a regular Google search)

Google Books (allow you to own MANY digitized books including many historical PH dictionaries, previews of PH hist. books etc.)

Historical dictionaries in Google Books (or elsewhere):

Delos Santos Tagalog Dictionary (1794, orig. 1703)

Noceda and Sanlucar's Tagalog Dictionary (1860, orig. 1754)

Bergano's Kapampangan Dictionary (1860, orig. 1732)

Carro's Ilocano Dictionary (1849, second ed. 1793)

[Cosgaya's Pangasinan Dictionary (1865, orig. ~1720's)](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/philamer/AQL8785.0001.001/4?rgn=full+text;vi

Gusto ko po sanang mag-aral ng Cebuano o kaya’y Hiligaynon para sa aking graduate degree requirements. Mayroon bang institution na nagbibigay ng certification/number of hours? Salamat sa sasagot.

Hello! I'm looking for people who can speak Ilonggo (it's for a project about dialects)

my group has to gather 10 words and 10 sentenced in Ilonggo 👉👈 then have them translated into Filipino qwq

The /r/rupaulsdragrace mod team and is looking to expand! In the new year we'll be hosting discussions for Drag Race Season 14, Drag Race Philippines, Drag Den, Drag Race France, and many many more forthcoming seasons, and we need YOU to join us to help out!

We are especially interested in finding users who:

• Have experience with graphic design. With so many new seasons of so many versions of drag race happening, our team is struggling to keep up with the demand of keeping our sub designs updated to current seasons without overworking our graphic designers. If you know a thing or two about designing assets in photoshop, it would GREATLY improve your chances of being taken on!

• Live in the Philippines or speak Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, or any other language you think will be useful for moderating discussions in /r/DragRacePhilippines

• Live in a European time zone, especially if you live specifically in the UK or France or speak French, as we need mods for /r/rpdr_UK and /r/DragRaceFrance

• Identify as a person of color, regardless of whether you fit any of the other criteria we are looking for. In the past we have avoided a call specifically looking for POC mods because the BIPOC members of our mod team had concerns about tokenizing and didn't want to pressure new members of the team to divulge any personal information they weren't comfortable sharing, but the sentiment has changed. And given that the last few rounds of mod applications focused on hiring mods for Drag Race Canada, Drag Race España, Drag Race Holland, Drag Race Italy, and Drag Race UK, we feel it's time to ask for POC applicants in order to maintain a racially diverse team.

We are endeavoring to always expand and increase the diversity of our mod team to ensure the difficult discussions raised by the show are moderated by people who understand the full cultural context in which these discussions are being held.

Note: if you've applied before and are still interested, please apply again!

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If you want to join the mod team of /r/RuPaulsDragRace then you must be:

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5. Using an account that is at least

So I was reading the wikipedia page for Hiligaynon (link), and in the grammar section it shows that verbs are inflected for real and unreal aspects. At first I thought they were referring to irrealis and realis moods, but then I realized that the chart they used already distinguished moods that would've been covered by irrealis mood. So what exactly are real and unreal aspects?

Thanks in advance!

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Sitting in my in laws house, my FIL thinks sleeping past 7 is bad, so I got up early and am working on this and pretending to be asleep bc I think its funny to mess with him and pretend to sleep till 10-1030. Not sure how the rest of this prank will end but YOLO! Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! Meet the Maguindanao in Philippines!

Region: Philippines, Bangsamoro, Maguindanao

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Climate: The Philippines has a tropical maritime climate that is usually hot and humid. There are three seasons: a hot dry season or summer from March to May; a rainy season from June to November; and a cool dry season from December to February. The southwest monsoon lasts from May to October, and the northeast monsoon from November to April. Temperatures usually range from 21 °C (70 °F) to 32 °C (90 °F). The coolest month is January; the warmest is May.

The average yearly temperature is around 26.6 °C (79.9 °F). In considering temperature, location in terms of latitude and longitude is not a significant factor, and temperatures at sea level tend to be in the same range. Altitude usually has more of an impact. The average annual temperature of Baguio at an elevation of 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) above sea level is 18.3 °C (64.9 °F), making it a popular destination during hot summers. Annual rainfall measures as much as 5,000 millimeters (200 in) in the mountainous east coast section but less than 1,000 millimeters (39 in) in some of the sheltered valleys.

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Terrain: The Philippines is an archipelago composed of about 7,640 islands, covering a total area, including inland bodies of water, of around 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi). The country has many mountains, rivers, and volcanoes. The highest mountain is Mount Apo. It measures up to 2,954 meters (9,692 ft) above sea level and is located on the island of Mindanao. The longest river is the Cagayan River in northern Luzon, measuring about 520 kilometers (320 mi). Manila Bay, upon the shore of which the capital city of Manila lies, is connected to Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the Philippines, by the Pasig River. Situated on the western fringes of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines experiences frequent s

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

They’re on standbi

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Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

BamBOO!

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is looking for native Hiligaynon speakers to serve as part-time language proficiency testers. You must be based in the U.S., have valid work permission in the U.S., and attend one in-person training session, with all expenses paid by ACTFL.

At the in-person training, you’d learn how to use a rating scale of speaking proficiency. Then, once someone needs to be rated, you’d talk on the phone with someone who is learning Hiligaynon and determine that person’s speaking rating. We don’t expect you’d have more than a few of these appointments per month, with each lasting about 30 minutes.

Attending an ACTFL language proficiency tester training is an opportunity to support learners of your native language, meet language professionals, and become involved in the work of a highly recognized foreign language association. There is payment available for undergoing this training; in addition, certified language testers are paid per test conducted.

Go to the application at https://www.actfl.org/professional-development/training-certification/ilr-opi-candidate-application for more information.

ACTFL is a US-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction.