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[chas3121 0]

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

[kev_n_jena 89]

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...

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

[Ken & Marife 0]

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..

[CountryGirl 0]

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

[Psoas10 17]

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

[Ken & Marife 0]

langgam -

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..

[kev_n_jena 89]

langgam -

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

Edited October 28, 2007 by kev_n_jena

[sunandmoon 450]

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

[JelloShotGirl 0]

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

[KansasDragon 1]

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

[spidergirl 0]

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"

[luvbugs4ever 0]

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.)

[eau_xplain 2]

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.

[RonMay 1]

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

[Dakine 26]

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

WOW she speaks Tagala! Talaga?