I'm curious, would people be interested in sharing where in The Philippines they immigrated from and what language is native for them?

Jena is from Northern Samar and was raised speaking Waray. She is also fluent in Tagalog, Bisayan, and English.

The following is from Wikipedia

The Philippines

According to Ethnologue, a total of 171 native languages are spoken in the country. Except for English, Spanish, Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Chabacano, all of the languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.

There are 13 native languages with at least one million native speakers: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Waray-Waray, Kapampangan, Bikol, Pangasinan, Maranao, Maguindanao, Kinaray-a, and Tausug. One or more of these is spoken natively by more than 90% of the population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_Philippines

Claudeth is from Cagayan on Mindanao and is fluent Bisayan, Tagalog and English. Oh, she spend almost two years in Germany and can also communite in German but isn't real good.

I was born in Iloilo (Western Visayas) so i speak " Kinaray-a" and "Hiligaynon". When i was 16 we moved to Koronadal (Mindanao) and this City is composed of diffirent kind of people from other provinces of the Philippines, they speak different dialects too, so from there i learned to speak "Ilokano", "Kapampangan" and "Bisaya". I speak Tagalog too which is the our National Language and English.

Wow, THANKS FOR THE REPLY! That is the kind of reply I was hoping for! The difference in The Philippines languages is fascinating to me.
Kevin and Jena

Gretchen was born in Davao on Mindinao and speaks Bisayan, Tagalog and English.



Chris

Myla speaks Bisayan,tagalog, spanish and english and a little bit of bahasa ( malaysia) . She is from Dipolog City (Mindanao)

langgam -

langgam -

Sorry about that, i didn't mean to post this

Ailene is from Surigao City, on Mindanao, and she speaks Visaya, Tagalog, and English...

Im sorry, im trying to post some example of words that have different meaning in other dialect

Rhosie is from Tukuran(close to Pagadian City) in Mindanao and speaks Cebuano, Tagalog, and English. Even speaks a bit of Spanish (more than me)

What about German, Russian, or Polish? Goodness! You sure know a lot of dialects...

i'M A wARAY-wARAY. I was born in Eastern Samar. I know how to speak Waray, English and Tagalog. I can't talk Bisaya but i understand it. Samar has different waray dialects with different tones, intonations and some words. My father came from San Jose Northern Samar(near Catarman). THat's why I could speak Northen Samar's waray dialect fluently...

TinTin is from Eastern Samar. She speaks Waray, Tagalog and English. She also has done some studying of Japanese at the University, but hasn't had an opportunity to utilize it much.

-Samby

Marivic is from Manila/Queson City she speaks Tagala and English flunently as well as some spanish, german as does her son and father.

Jena and I flew in to Catarman when we went to visit her parents last time.

Sometimes I tease her and say she is a waray warrior woman, then she gets all "Manny Pacquiao" on me. She can be scary for 105 lbs.

Kevin

[quote name='kev_n_jena' date='Oct 26 2007, 12:46 PM' post='1284279']
I'm curious, would people be interested in sharing where in The Philippines they immigrated from and what language is native for them?

Jena is from Northern Samar and was raised speaking Waray. She is also fluent in Tagalog, Bisayan, and English.

The following is from Wikipedia

The Philippines

According to Ethnologue, a total of 171 native languages are spoken in the country. Except for English, Spanish, Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Chabacano, all of the languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.

There are 13 native languages with at least one million native speakers: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Waray-Waray, Kapampangan, Bikol, Pangasinan, Maranao, Maguindanao, Kinaray-a, and Tausug. One or more of these is spoken natively by more than 90% of the population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_Philippines
HI,
im from Western Samar..We lived in Allen Northern Samr b4 so I know how to speak in Bicolano..and Waray. just in Samar I think lots of laungage there ..from Northern to Western and Eastern Part of Samar ..I know how to speak 5 waray languages..I know also Cebuano..Boholano..Leytenyo..and and our National language "tagalog"..i know more now on Spanish bec my honeyko teached me.!!!!.Example: maganda..in Samar word"Mahusay,gwapa,gwapahon, and Hagsay....Hoiii samarenyo..Maupay na adlaw sa iyo tanan..

Hi,

I grew up in Makati and moved to Imus Cavite as an adult ,I also spent some time working in Japan. My parent was originally from Bicol....

Therfore....

I speak tagalog, bicol, english, and japanese


CG

Well my fiance is from Ilocos Norte, so she speaks Ilocano, and Taglog and English, Which most Filipinos speak or understand. She will be fine in Hawaii where there alot of Ilocanos here, about 85% of the filipinos here. Weird thing is people in Manila though we were a tagalog couple. coz she speaks fluent tagalog and I look like a meztizzo

langgam means Ants..we called it in Western Samar"harumigas"..IN some part of Northern Samar they call it "kutitob"..but in somewhere in think in Bohol "langgam to them is bird..

Jena says, "In my area of Northern Samar we call ants "TIGASAW". In Iligan City, Mindanao, we called them "AMIGAS". LANGGAM is tagalog." Bird is "TAMSI" in N Samar.

She is suprised langam would mean bird somewhere.

ahhh, i just found this on another thread.

Bird and Ant in Two Languages

In Tagalog:

1. Bird - Ibon
2. Ant - Langgam

In Cebuano

1. Bird - Langgam
2. Ant - Holmigas


Now and Later in Two Languages

In Hiligaynon

1. Now - Subong
2. Later - Karon

In Cebuano

1. Now - Karon
2. Later - Unya

Yazi is from Davao City, so speaks Bisaya, Tagalog and English.

my husband is from metro manila...his mom was from Cebu, dad from Ilo Ilo......................he doesnt speak visayan...only Tagalog and English. I guess his parents didnt speak visayan at home or whatever...........lol

Annie is from Bohol originally, and lives in Pampanga now (for a little while more). She is fluent in Visayan, Tagalog, and speaks English well. And someone is teaching her a little spanish, and making me crazy...lolz

I will share you my experience when i first moved to Davao from Koronadal. I moved to a boarding house and on my first day there one Girl (Bisayan) talked to me a befriend me, after a few hours of conversation she asked me to go with her to the mall (we talked in Bisaya), unknowingly i answered her in Hiligaynon, i said "Karon ah" which means "later" in Hiligaynon. So she stand up and said "OK" and went to her room. After a few minutes she came back dressed up, she asked me why i wasn't dressed, i told her i thought i said we will go later. She said no, you said now, you said "Karon na", then I realized that i answered her in Hiligaynon. I explained to her what i said and what it means to Hiligaynon and we laughed. From then on we become best friends and we avoid using "karon" on our conversation.

Karon - means now in "Bisaya" and later in "Hiligaynon"

Kadamo ta ngay-an dinhi it mga WARAY! I grew up in Eastern Samar, stayed in Bohol, and Manila before i got here in US to finally live forever with my husband. Therefore I knew Waray (estihanon/Eastern), Boholano/Cebuano, & Tagalog.

"Langgam" - Tagalog (Ant in English) = (Amigas in Bisayan) = (Tubak in Waray-Estihanon)
"Langgam" - Bisayan (Bird in English) = ( Ibon in Tagalog) = (Tamsi in Waray-E.)

My main native language is Cebuano. Like most Filipinos, I also speak Tagalog and English. I was also fortunate enough to spend some time in other places in the Philippines and learned to speak some Hiligaynon, Waray (mostly N. Samar version) and Chavacano.

i was born in cebu so i talk visayan, then moved to cagayan de oro its still visayan yet with a twist of some changes, my mom is from leyte they talk different there like waray/visayan with different diction/pronounciation which i have to learn, then my grandpa was from ilocos so i learned a bit ilocano (not much though) then of course the very common english and tagalog. lol...

we had this neighbor once who from came surigao and they have this unique way of dialect too some you could understand them yet they're just using it in a different meaning. one time the neighbor knock in our door and they said "mangita mi ug tv" (in cdo it means "we're looking for a tv") so i thought, huh? you're looking for what? lol my mom just said "sure" then explained it to me that they wanted to watch tv in our house. which in my dialect it should be "manan-aw mi ug tv"... oh well

WOW she speaks Tagala! Talaga?

Jing comes from Iba, Zambales ,speaks Tagalog, English and Zambal !

I'm from Cagayan and I speak Ilocano, Tagalog, English, and Spanish.

I'm from Palompon Leyte and speak Cebuana..born and raised in Manila and speak fluently of Tagalog. I've been around in my native land so I know and can speak their dialect such as Pampanga, Bicol, Iloilo, Ilocos Norte , Pangasinan and Cebu. I live for 7 years in Olongapo Zambales and I can speak Zambal also.I may not be that fluent in English but I can speak write and understand the word. I can speak and understand a 'lil spanish too.

Anybody else want to add to this?

BTW we added Jena's YM to our profile. If you are new to the USA or coming soon and want someone to chat with, just message her on YM. She online invisible a lot of the time during the day.

Kev n Jena

Hmm, this is an interesting post...:-) I have studied in Tacloban City and learn how to speak Waray-waray. I'm very fluent in that dialect. Our native dialect is Bisaya coz I was born in Ormoc. I can also understand Ilonggo. And of course, all Filipinos are fluent in Tagalog. :-) So I can speak Bisaya (Cebuano), Waray-waray, a little Ilonggo, and of course English, and a little Spanish. I also learned some Slovene words, how i learn it, it's a long story...:-)

I have some old friends in college who were from Samar and I have visited the place a number of times. :-)

I grew up in Manila but my parents are from Bicol.
I know tagalog, bicolano, quite understand ilokano and bisayan, spanish and english...

Been in alot of countries due to my work so i also speak chinese (mandarin), japanese (nihonggo), urdu and Korean languages...still wants to learn more maybe european language this time, lol!

Boy, you are multilingual sis Maria! I always envy those who can speak more than 3 dialects, hehehe. I came from Southern Tagalog region and the only dialect we have is the Tagalog (Filipino). I am in the process of (self) learning Spanish.

--Mae

My dad is my idol. He is an ilocano and he speaks fluent Ilocano, Ilonggo, Cebuano (with accent), Maranao, Maguindanaon, Spanish, Arabic, English, and of course tagalog. Unfortunately I only speak Ilonggo, Bisaya (iligan style),tagalog and English. I am more comfortable with bisaya and ilonggo though. I live in Iligan and I am trying to learn the muslim dialect (Maranao). Gone are the days of tribal wars between ilonggo versus ilocano or ilonggo versus bisaya. I love it when i gather around with my cousins and friends from all over the philippines and we talk in different dialects. It reminds me of the song of MAX SURBAN....

May tulo ako ka amigo, na pulos gayud gwatsinanggo
Makainum gani malipong ang ulo, mogula ang pagkamaldito
Kung mag-abot dayung debate lupig nila ang abogado
Labi na gyud ug mgahubog kay magkuntis dayun sa hambog

Sa hinambugay magdaog ta, ako waray, hilonggo ka, ug cebuano sab siya

Intra waray
Didto intoy sa among bungtod sa samar ug leyte
Ako kadak-an pinakareko nga pensyonado hang us navy
Salit bugto ko si Mc Arthur kaupayhan amoy rekwerdo
Giregalo na sa akon ang iyang antiyohos ug kwako

Sa hinambugay magdaog ta, ako waray, hilonggo ka, ug cebuano siya

Abante cebuano
Ako intawon mga amigo mantinil lang gayud ug pangnigosyo
Gi senyor senyor ako sa mga tawo kay tag-iya lang lagi ug mga barko
Ang siyam ko ka mga tarato giapuran kuna regalo
Sila tag dyes iktaryas kwadrado sa akung yuta sa menteryo


Tirato Hilonggo
Ako sa amo gyud aprop sa bacolod kag iloilo nga ako numero uno nga asindero sa tubo
Kun ako gyud inyo patihon pang olimpik gini ni kaayo, kay sa amo iya ang kawarta
ginapiko ginapala

Repeat 2x
Sa hinambugay magdaog ta, ako waray, hilonggo ka, ug cebuano siya


Ti mabatu pabagid kamo sa akon