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Diccionario Serrano-Laktaw and our Authentic National Language.
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Allegedly, we have a national language that they decreed is now named FILIPINO.
This was after around 80 years of our national language being called TAGALOG. But the language subject of Tagalog in our schools was called "PILIPINO".
Fair enough. Germany's language is GERMAN.
France's language is FRENCH.
Spain's language is SPANISH.
Filipinas' language is FILIPINO.
But....do we really speak "Filipino"? Don't we speak TAGLISH?
Tagalog mixed with English?
If you have a national language, you should be fluent in it, but almost no Filipino can speak "Filipino" without using English words and phrases, because he or she doesn't know the Tagalog words and phrases to express the most basic ideas.
Also, if you have a national language, aren't you supposed to LOVE that language? To READ its great literature, poetry, theater plays, its works of history?
But we Filipinos have not read Florante at Laura, we have not read the Pasyon, we have not read any novel in Tagalog (or "Filipino"). I have a novel, "Pinaglahúan", its author is Faustino S. Aguilar. It was first published in 1907. I also have the memoirs of General Santiago Álvarez, Ang Katipunan at ang Paghihimagsik. I have not read these two books completely. They are great books, among my treasures.
Both books were published by Ateneo de Manila University Press.
KUDOS to Ateneo for this.
If we are to speak honestly, "Filipino" is a second-class language and English is our real national language. We read everything in English. All our books and newspapers are in English. It's just politically correct to speak Taglish. On TV, on Internet, at home, in school, at the office, at Mass. But we mix Tagalog and English in a language salad and it's enough, we are giving lip service to our patriotism and political correctness.
However, if we wanted to be culturally authentic, we would speak "Filipino" properly. No English phraseology mixture, unless they are English words that have been Tagalized, included as dictionary entries.
The fact, however, is that "Filipino" is bastardized Tagalog. It was pulled out of a magician's hat with the intention of eliminating the Spanish words. Which was totally futile anyway, but who cares, right? Filipinos don't know Spanish so they can't tell.
"Filipino" is the Americanized impoverished Tagalog. The poor relative of Tagalog who became the new owner of the hacienda, rebaptized ---what? BCD? Rockwell Village?
The Diccionario Serrano-Laktaw proves the linguistic violence that was wreaked on our most important native Filipino language.
The Germans don't speak Germlish. The French don't speak Frenglish. Even the Spanish don't speak Spanglish. In Latin American countries, speaking in "Spanglish" is just kidding around, like speaking in Portuñol is a good-humored cliché.
But for us Filipinos, if we had to give up Taglish, we'd be seriously linguistically challenged.
How about it? Isn't it about time we spoke Filipino and English as separate languages, both spoken correctly, fluently, at university level?
No. That is not the right question. Here is the right question:
Isn't it about time we returned to our authentic national language, TAGALOG, as it is documented in the 1914 Diccionario Tagálog-Hispano by don Pedro Serrano-Laktaw, our great lexicographer, a national hero in his own right, and COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN?
Should we not reprint the Diccionario and include it in our mandated Spanish and Tagalog subjects and university programs in Hispanic-Filipino Language and Literature?
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