Filipino languages, dialects, and a sense of identity (via nolisoliph )
Is Bisaya a language? No. It is a language family consisting of languages spoken in the Visayas and northern Mindanao. Bisayan languages include Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Karay-a, and Surigaonon, among others. Cebuano is colloquially known as 'Bisaya.'These languages have their own distinct set of words, grammatical rules, and manner of usage. They aren’t just the regional variety of Filipino, they’re a language of their own.
In contrast, if you put someone who only speaks Tagalog and someone who speaks only Ilonggo in one room, they’ll be hard-pressed to understand one another. That’s because they speak two different, distinct, separate languages. The language versus dialect debate goes much deeper than you’d think. As a Cebuano living in Manila, I’ve had my fair share of language versus dialect debates.
It’s important to mention that dialects aren’t inferior to languages. There shouldn’t even be this sort of ranking to begin with. As with different types of social norms, no language is better than the other. So why would we treat dialects differently? My personal theory on these abbreviations is that they stem from Cebu being a big, fast-paced city. There’s not much time to enjoy the art of speaking complete versions of the word because there’s much else to do. Again, it’s not a good thing or a bad thing, it just is.
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