Hello! If you stumbled upon this subreddit and wondered what in the world is this subreddit all about, then you've come to the right place.

This post will talk about the whats, whys, and hows in constructing a "Unified" Visayan Language, which is what this subreddit is all about. We won't be calling this a standard language since it isn't recognized by the people and is not something that's declared officially as a language.

First of all, The Visayan language family is a language family that consists of 25 seperate languages across all the three major island groups in the Philippines. Although each of these languages are considered seperate languages, the Visayan languages are more like a dialect continuum, with some languages even having a high degree of mutual intelligibility with each other. The main idea and goal behind this "conlang", short for constructed language, is to bridge the gap and to create a common ground between most, if not all, of the members of the Visayan language family along with its speakers.

What is this "conlang" that you're talking about? What are its features?

This conlang doesn't have a "standard" name yet since it should be the community who has to decide what should the language be called. This conlang would be constructed based on the features of the Proto-Bisaya Language and all of the features common amongst all of the Visayan languages. The features of Proto-Austronesian, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, Proto-Philippine, and Proto-Greater Central Philippine languages will also be considered along with languages with the likes of Tagalog, Bikol, Malay, etc. but only in certain situations. The conlang will also avoid the use of Spanish and English loanwords as much as possible. The conlang will also include words and concepts that are only available in one or few of the languages and have no equivalents in other languages. Also, practicality, simplicity, and ease of learning will be considered in creating the language as a whole, including the grammar and vocabulary. It should also be intelligible amongst most of the Visayan languages, especially among languages with the most number of speakers like Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Tausug, etc.

How do we make this "conlang"?

This will be the main purpose of the subreddit, which is to create the language based on community suggestions, polls, and recommendations. This subreddit will also be the place where information about words, their usage and equivalents, will be gathered to c

Hey, guys! I'm currently teaching Visayan to a group of six college level kids. It's kind of an unofficial position, I'm prepping them to go to a school in Davao, Philippines. I have them doing all the normal stuff, memrise etc. and I have been able to provide video chats with native speakers and so forth.

But mostly I'm just wingin' it.

This is not my first class that I'm teaching Visayan, and there just are no RESOURCES to pull from! I'd love to compile a curriculum packet, anything that would make this easier on the next go around. It's so much work to try and write out everything I know.

So anybody know of any good media (movies especially!), games, books, flashcards, anything?

I appreciate anything!!!! Salamat kaayo! Thank you! :)

I'm interested in starting a Visayan language immersion program. It would need to be located somewhere away from a population center in a community where everyone would only speak Visayan to foreign students.

This concept has an interesting problem, namely that places in the Visayas far from population centers tend to speak local variations of Visayan that sound unsophisticated to urban speakers. A goal of the project would be to have students speak moden urban Visayan that would sound good in Cebu and Davao, not a funny mountain dialect.

Are there specific variations of Visayan that speakers themselves identify as sounding better than others? Where are these variations spoken?

Any other ideas for this project?

INTRODUCTION

This post will attempt to explain the differences in how Filipinos and Indonesians see ethnicity and the nature of the two societies. A couple of years ago I did some posts on the Philippines and Indonesia like TL: DR Reasons for the failure of the Philippines’s foreign policy,

The post will be organized as follows

1. LATITUDINAL VS LONGITUDINAL ARCHIPELAGIC STATE
2. AUSTRONESIAN CORE
   1. ETHNICITY AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
3. ETHNO-CULTURAL DIAGRAM
4. RELIGIOUS-CULTURAL LAYERS
5. MULTIPLE SOCIETIES VS MAINSTREAM FILIPINO SOCIETY
6. HIGHLAND AND LOWLAND SOCIETIES
7. BLOOD, LOCATION, AND CULTURE

Many, like Samuel Huntington's in his book Clash of Civilization (1996) label Indonesia as Islamic, and the Philippines as Western, but beyond these simple labels, people are left hanging. Little is done to describe the structure of the societies, how ethnic groups and religious minorities are organized. The four takeaways from this post are:

• Indonesia is a longitudinal archipelagic state-aligned by trade and a shared lingua franca. The Philippines is a latitudinal archipelagic state orientated loosely by trade with China, and later on, shared religion.
• In Maritime Southeast Asia, there are cultural layers, such as Sanskritization, Islam, and Christianity.
• The Indonesian state believes Indonesia consists of multiple societies. While most Filipinos and the Philippines state assume there is mainstream Filipino society.
• The Indonesian state defines ethnicity by blood and keeps detailed records of regions' ethnic composition. The Philippines' state doesn't keep such data.

This post will be the beginning of a series of posts I will do about Indonesia and the Philippines. The purpose of this particular post is to provide a very rough framework for looking at ethnicity, culture, and religion in Indonesia and the Philippines. I won't get into the "why", that will be for subsequent posts.

I decided to do this post, because Indonesia's importance to the Philippines is understated, and its importance will increase markedly after Indonesia moves its

Like saying, "Mag-iingat po kayo." instead of "Mag-iingat ka po." Is this the accepted convention of Filipino? Do other languages use this technique?

Edit: Thank you all for shedding light on this matter. TIL that this is called T-V distinction and other languages also use this technique! Maraming salamat po!

For the more diverse countries this national language issue can cause problem like jealousy.

Our founding fathers managed to dodge this by choosing to standardize Malay, a language spoken by less than a percent of the population, to Bahasa Indonesia.

I think for us, Bahasa Indonesia is seen as neutral and as a useful tool to speak to people from other ethnic groups.

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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Index Ranking (Urgency): 90

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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!

They’re on standbi

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.

The Anting-Anting of Manuelito (1)

"The Anting-Anting is a stone or other small object covered with cabalistic inscriptions. It is worn around the neck, and is supposed to render its owner impervious to knife or bullet (2). Many are wearing these charms, especially the Tulisanes or outlaws. The Anting-Anting must not be confused, however, with the scapular, a purely religious symbol worn by a great number of the Christian Filipinos.

Many of the older Filipinos remember Manuelito, the great Tulisane, who, more than fifty years ago, kept all the Laguna de Bai district in a state of fear. His robber band was well organized and obeyed his slightest wish. He had many boats on the lake and many hiding places in the mountains, and throughout the country there was no villager who did not fear to oppose him, or who would refuse to help him in any way when required to do so (3).

In vain the Guardia Civil (4) hunted him. Many times they surrounded the band, but Manuelito always escaped. Many shots were fired at him, but he was never hit; and once, when he was cut off from his men and surrounded, he broke through the line, and though fifty bullets whistled around him he did not receive a scratch. The officers of the Guardia Civil blamed their men for the bad marksmanship that allowed Manuelito to escape. They told all the people that it should never occur again, and promised that the next fight should end in the death of the outlaw. The people, however, did not believe that Manuelito could be killed, for he wore on his breast a famous Anting-Anting that he had received from Mangagauay (5), the giver of life and death.

This charm was a stone covered with mysterious signs. It was wrapped in silk and hung by a string from the robber's neck, and even if a gun were fired within a few feet of him the Anting-Anting was sure to turn the bullet in another direction. It was this charm that always saved him from the Guardia Civil.

*Manuelito was very proud of his Anting-Anting, and many times, when a fiesta was being held in some town, he and his band would come down from the mountains and take part in the games. Manuelito would stand in the town plaza and allow his men to shoot at him, and each time the Anting-Anting would turn aside the bullets. The people were very much impressed, and though a few of the wiser ones secretly thought that the guns were only loaded with powder, they were afraid to say anything; so the greater number thought it very wonderful and be

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!

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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

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

It was about a weak back.