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.

I’m seeing a lot of posts claiming that these are dialects. No. These are languages. They have their own words for nouns and verbs, even grammatical structures etc. Just like other languages, of course there is a lot of loan words from other languages.

So what is Filipino? It’s basically Tagalog but some words from other languages were added. It is political, that’s for sure. The ideal is that they (i mean govt agencies that concerns language and culture) want to have a lingua franca in the Philippines and Filipino was the solution. It failed because we have almost 200 languages and we are an archipelago, we’re not that culturally integrated as a nation.

I am amused that some people still don’t know this by now.

Hi. I would like to improve my Waray language proficiency, specifically its Taclobanon dialect. Any tips and resources?

I'm a Waray and been living in the Samar Island all my life. I wanted to know more of my language, the culture, and history of my people. Thanks!

What did people call babies back then? While we're on the topic, what are some simple ideas/concepts that are annoyingly non-existent in Tagalog?

EDIT: In my parent's language, Waray, they say ka-iro but it can also mean something like frail or helpless.

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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

This seems like something that would already have studies about it, but I can't find any. So does anyone know why Bisaya/Cebuano, a Philippine language, uses the O/U sound (I'll just treat them as interchangeable because most words spelled with O in Bisaya are pronounced as U anyway) while Tagalog uses I in similar words?

Bisaya and Tagalog vocabulary is very different from each other, but like Bisaya and Bahasa Indonesian, there are still some similar words thanks to the fact that they're Malayo-Polynesian languages. I noticed that Bisaya often uses O/U for those similar words and Tagalog uses I.

Examples:

lawom - deep (Bisaya)

lalim - deep (Tagalog)

maaslom (archaic form of aslom) - sour (Bisaya)

maasim - sour (Tagalog)

tanum - plant (Bisaya)

tanim - plant (Tagalog)

dag-om - gloomy (Bisaya)

dilim - darkness/gloom (Tagalog)

bituon - star (Bisaya)

bituin - Tagalog

"I will cook this" would be "Ako ni lutuon" in Bisaya and "Lulutuin ko ito" in Tagalog. Does anyone know why?

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!

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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.

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!

They’re on standbi

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Nothing, he was gladiator.

So, my heritage is Visayan+Ibanag+Tagalog. Should I feel bad about claiming cultural tidbits from other regions like learning Kapampangan Kulitan writing and wanting to learn the Mindanaoan Kudyapi lute? Also, I've been wondering how to get ahold of information about Ibanag culture, because I haven't been able to find any books or media about Ibanag language and crafts and stuff.

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.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

hi! so I'm a student and I'm creating a post for my school org pero whenever I search up some phrases/words in the dialects local languages, different results always come up per website.

Can somebody help me translate these?

• Hi!
• Good morning
• Good evening
• How are you
• My name is …
• Yes
• No
• What?
• Thank you!

from english to cebuano, ilocano, hiligaynon or ilonggo, bicolano, waray, pampango, and pangasinense

if possible, can anybody help me translate this? :) thank you !! <3

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

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