Luzvimindan Letters: Let's put an end to the madness | Luzvimindan Project
Let's stop it before it's too late to end to the madness of "Filipino" as the national language.
The reality is, The Philippines is slowly Tagalizing. There is a steady decline on the number of speakers of various indigenous tongues. Despite this the government isn't really doing anything to teach and preserve these languages.While the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino still propagates the lie that the national language isn't Tagalog. The least we can do is to stop calling the national language Filipino. Instead, call it Tagalog as it is really is.
Let us not build this country on top of the remains of other ethnolinguistic nations' culture and language because every indigenous language is Filipino.
P.S.
Are Tagalog and Filipino one the same? Short answer, yes and no. Why? Essentially, Tagalog and Filipino is different. Filipino is simply a dialect of Tagalog, much like Batangueño Tagalog, Bulacan Tagalog, Marinduqueño Tagalog, etc. Technically speaking however, vis-à-vis with Ilocano, Cebuano, Tausug, and the other indigenous languages in the country, Tagalog and Filipino dissipates into one. It is like asking if British English and American English is different. In essence, they are but in a context where we ask if they are of different languages, they are not, since both of them is simply a dialect of English. Such is the case with Filipino and Tagalog, they are simply one language.
Are Tagalog and Filipino one the same? Short answer, yes and no. Why? Essentially, Tagalog and Filipino is different. Filipino is simply a dialect of Tagalog, much like Batangueño Tagalog, Bulacan Tagalog, Marinduqueño Tagalog, etc. Technically speaking however, vis-à-vis with Ilocano, Cebuano, Tausug, and the other indigenous languages in the country, Tagalog and Filipino dissipates into one. It is like asking if British English and American English is different. In essence, they are but in a context where we ask if they are of different languages, they are not, since both of them is simply a dialect of English. Such is the case with Filipino and Tagalog, they are simply one language.