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    How May Language Vary From Community To Community?

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    The document discusses how language can vary between communities in the Philippines. It notes that the Philippines has 171 living languages, with the 8 major ones being Tagalog, Ilocano, Pangasinan, Pampango, Bicol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray-Samarnon. Accents differ between regions, allowing people to identify where others are from based on how they speak Filipino, the national language. However, some accents like the Visayan accent have become the subject of discrimination and jokes that portray Visayan people in a negative light.

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    The document discusses how language can vary between communities in the Philippines. It notes that the Philippines has 171 living languages, with the 8 major ones being Tagalog, Ilocano, Pangasinan, Pampango, Bicol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray-Samarnon. Accents differ between regions, allowing people to identify where others are from based on how they speak Filipino, the national language. However, some accents like the Visayan accent have become the subject of discrimination and jokes that portray Visayan people in a negative light.

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    The document discusses how language can vary between communities in the Philippines. It notes that the Philippines has 171 living languages, with the 8 major ones being Tagalog, Ilocano, Pangasinan, Pampango, Bicol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray-Samarnon. Accents differ between regions, allowing people to identify where others are from based on how they speak Filipino, the national language. However, some accents like the Visayan accent have become the subject of discrimination and jokes that portray Visayan people in a negative light.

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    HOW MAY LANGUAGE VARY FROM COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY?

    INTRODUCTION:

    The Philippines is one of the most linguistically diverse nations in the world. According

    to Ethnologue, a catalogue of world languages updated yearly, there are 171 living languages in

    the archipelago. The 8 major languages are: Tagalog, Ilocano, Pangasinan, Pampango, Bicol,

    Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray-Samarnon.

    The linguistic diversity of the Philippines arises from natural processes broadly relating

    to language change, the divergence between linguistic communities caused by lack of

    communication, and the converse convergence caused by a high rate of communication between

    communities. The people of the Philippines are experiencing a period of language convergence,

    marked by high levels of borrowing from large languages such as English, Tagalog, as well as

    from regionally important languages. In this process, for better or worse, some languages are

    abandoned altogether and become extinct.

    Accent is the influence of one ‘s first language in the way subsequent languages is

    spoken.

    In the Philippines, Filipinos from different regions speak with various accents. You can identify

    a Visayan from a Tagalog, as well as Pampangos, Ilocanos or Bicolanos by the way they speak

    Filipino, our national language. It is not only the pronunciations that differ, there are also the

    different rhythms in speaking.

    The Bisaya language is often used when cracking a joke or when someone is trying to

    make a person laugh by mimicking the native accent. What is more saddening, is the fact that the
    Visayan people are being turned into a laughing stock just because some people think they are

    better than them.

    Every day, discrimination is committed against a Bisaya - on TV shows, on radio

    programs, on the streets and inside buses, trains, passenger jeepneys, malls, department stores,

    even churches. Everywhere. Racism is the discrimination and targeted bigotry towards another

    race. This discrimination is derived from the amount of melanin your skin has to even your

    cultural ethnicity. It can also be defined as feeling dominant and superior to other racial groups,

    as stated in the Merriam Webster Dictionary. This issue is more common in the north —

    Tagalogs dominate the Bisaya.

    This is a kind of point that challenge generations. Filipinos were raised with such subtle

    yet steadfast prejudices—not only those based on geographical, but also those based on religion,

    background and social status. We were not outright taught to discriminate, but we learned it by

    example anyway.

    REFERENCES:

    1. http://www.ethnicgroupsphilippines.com/2013/09/18/coping-with-the-bisaya-accent

    2. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Approach and Studies

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