Hiligaynon language

Hiligaynon
Ilonggo
Inilonggo, Binisaya nga Hiniligaynon, Bisaya nga Ilonggo
Pronunciation	/hɪlᵻˈɡaɪnən/
Native to	Philippines
Region	Western Visayas and Negros Island Region, southwestern portion of Masbate, some parts of Palawan, SOCCSKSARGEN and some parts of Northern Mindanao
Ethnicity	Hiligaynon people
Native speakers	8.2 million (2007) 4th most spoken native language in the Philippines
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Visayan Hiligaynon
Dialects	Urban/Standard Hiligaynon (Iloilo dialect) Bacolodnon Hiligaynon (Metro Bacolod dialect) Negrense Hiligaynon (Negros Occidental province dialect) Guimaras Hiligaynon Mindanao Hiligaynon Kari
Writing system	Latin (Hiligaynon alphabet) Hiligaynon Braille Historically Badlit (c. 13th–19th centuries)
Official status
Official language in	Regional language in the Philippines
Regulated by	Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-2	hil
ISO 639-3	hil
Glottolog	hili1240
Areas where Hiligaynon is spoken

The Hiligaynon language, often referred to as Ilonggo, is an Austronesian language spoken in the Western Visayas, Negros Island Region and SOCCSKSARGEN of the Philippines.

Hiligaynon is concentrated in the provinces of Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Guimaras, and Capiz, but it is also spoken in the other provinces, such as Antique, Aklan, Negros Oriental, Masbate, Palawan, as well as in many parts of Mindanao such as Koronadal City, most parts of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and in other parts of North Cotabato. It is also spoken as a second language by Kinaray-a speakers in Antique, Aklanon/Malaynon speakers in Aklan, Capiznon speakers in Capiz and Cebuano speakers in Negros Oriental.

There are approximately 7,000,000 people in and outside the Philippines native speakers of Hiligaynon and an additional 4,000,000 capable of speaking it with a substantial degree of proficiency.

It is a member of the Visayan language family. The language is also often referred to as Ilonggo (Spanish: ilongo) in Iloilo and in Negros Occidental. Many argue, however, that this is an incorrect usage of the word "Ilonggo." In precise usage, "Ilonggo" should be used only in relation to the ethnolinguistic group of native inhabitants of Iloilo and the culture associated with native Hiligaynon speakers, they argue. The disagreement over the usage of "Ilonggo" to refer to the language extends to Philippine language specialists and native laymen.

Historical evidence from observations of early Spanish explorers in the Archipelago shows that the nomenclature used to refer to this language had its origin among the people of the coasts or people of the Ilawod ("los [naturales] de la playa"), whom Loarca called Yligueynes (or the more popular term Hiligaynon, also referred to by the Karay-a people as "Siná"). In contrast, the "Kinaray-a" has been used by what the Spanish colonizers called Arayas, which is most probably a Spanish misconception (as they often misinterpreted what they heard from the natives) of the Hiligaynon words Iraya or taga-Iraya, or the current and more popular version Karay-a (highlanders - people of Iraya [highlands]).

Classification

Dialects

Similar to many languages in the Philippines, very little research on dialectology has been done on Hiligaynon. Some of the widely-recognized varieties of the language are Urban Iloilo variant or simply Ilonggo, Metro Bacolod dialect or Bacolodnon, Provincial Negros Occidental dialect or Negrense Hiligaynon, Guimaras Hiligaynon and Mindanao Hiligaynon. Native speakers also consider Kinaray-a (or Antiqueño) and Capiznon as dialects of Hiligaynon; however, these have been classified by linguists as separate (Western Visayan) languages.

Related languages

According to H. Otley Beyer and other anthropologists, the term Visayan was first applied only to the people of Panay and to their settlements eastward in the island of Negros (especially its western portion), and northward in the smaller islands, which now compose the province of Romblon. In fact, at the early part of Spanish colonialization of the Philippines, the Spaniards used the term Visayan only for these areas. While the people of Cebu, Bohol and Leyte were for a long time known only as Pintados. The name Visayan was later extended to these other islands because, as several of the early writers state, their languages are closely allied to the Visayan dialect of Panay.

Writing system

Until the second half of the 20th century, Hiligaynon was widely written based on Spanish orthography consisting of 32 letters called ABECEDARIO:

A B C Ch D E F G H I J K L Ll M N Ng Ñ N͠g/Ng̃/Ñg O P Q R Rr S T U V W X Y Z

The core alphabet consists of 20 letters used for expressing consonants and vowels in Hiligaynon, each of which comes in an upper case and lower case variety.

Alphabet

The 1st to 10th letters
Symbol	A a			B b	K k	D d	E e	G g	H h	I i		L l	M m
Name	a			ba	ka	da	e	ga	ha	i		la	ma
Pronunciation	[a/ə]	[aw]	[aj]	[b]	[k]	[d]	[ɛ/e]	[ɡ]	[h]	[ɪ/i]	[ɪo]	[l]	[m]
in context	a	aw/ao	ay	b	k	d	e	g	h	i	iw/io	l	m

The 11th to 20th letters
Symbol	N n	Ng ng	O o		P p	R r	S s		T t	U u		W w	Y y
Name	na	nga	o		pa	ra	sa		ta	u		wa	ya
Pronunciation	[n]	[ŋ]	[ɔ/o]	[oj]	[p]	[r]	[s]	[ʃʲ]	[t]	[ʊ/u]	[w]	[w]	[j]
in context	n	ng	o	oy	p	r	s	sy	t	u	ua	w	y

Additional symbols

The apostrophe(') and hyphen(-) also appear in Hiligaynon writing, and might be considered letters.

The hyphen, in particular, is used medially in some words to indicate the glottal stop san-o ‘when’ gab-e ‘evening; night’. It is also used to indicate the point in a word where reduplication is present: adlaw-adlaw ‘daily, every day’, from adlaw ‘day, sun’. However, the use of this means of marking reduplication is not always consistent: pispis ‘bird’.

In addition, some English letters may be used in borrowed words.

Grammar

Determiners

Hiligaynon has three types of case markers: absolutive, ergative, and oblique. These types in turn are divided into personal, that have to do with names of people, and impersonal, that deal with everything else, and further into singular and plural types, though the plural impersonal case markers are just the singular impersonal case markers + mga (a contracted spelling for /maŋa/), a particle used to denote plurality in Hiligaynon.

	Absolutive	Ergative	Oblique
singular impersonal	ang	sang, sing*	sa
plural impersonal	ang mga	sang mga, sing mga*	sa mga
singular personal	si	ni	kay
plural personal**	sanday	nanday	kanday

(*)The articles sing and sing mga means the following noun is indefinite, while sang tells of a definite noun, like the use of a in English as opposed to the, however, it is not as common in modern speech, being replaced by sang. It appears in conservative translations of the Bible into Hiligaynon and in traditional or formal speech
(**)The plural personal case markers are not used very often and not even by all speakers. Again, this is an example of a case marker that has fallen largely into disuse, but is still occasionally used when speaking a more traditional form of Hiligaynon, using less Spanish loan words.

The case markers do not determine which noun is the subject and which is the object; rather, the affix of the verb determines this, though the ang-marked noun is always the topic.

Example

Ang lalaki nagkaon sang tinapay.	≈	Ang tinapay ginkaon sang lalaki.
"The man ate the bread"		"The bread was eaten by the man" (literal)

Personal pronouns

	Absolutive	Ergative₁ (Postposed)	Ergative₂ (Preposed)	Oblique
1st person singular	ako, ko	nakon, ko	akon	sa akon
2nd person singular	ikaw, ka	nimo, mo	imo	sa imo
3rd person singular	siya	niya	iya	sa iya
1st person plural inclusive	kita	naton, ta	aton	sa aton
1st person plural exclusive	kami	namon	amon	sa amon
2nd person plural	kamo	ninyo	inyo	sa inyo
3rd person plural	sila	nila	ila	sa ila

Demonstrative pronouns

	Absolutive	Ergative/Oblique	Locative	Existential
Nearest to speaker (this, here) *	iní	siní	dirí	(y)ári
Near to addressee or closely removed from speaker and addressee (that, there)	inâ	sinâ	dirâ	(y)ára'
Remote (yon, yonder)	ató	sadtó	didtó	(y)á(d)to

In addition to this, there are two verbal deictics, karí, meaning come to speaker, and kadto, meaning to go yonder.

Copula

Hiligaynon lacks the marker of sentence inversion "ay" of Tagalog/Filipino or "hay" of Akeanon. Instead sentences in SV form (Filipino: Di karaniwang anyo) are written without any marker or copula.

Examples:

"Si Maria ay maganda" (Tagalog)

"Si Maria matahum/ Si Maria guapa" (Hiligaynon) = "Maria is beautiful."

"Maria is beautiful" (English)

There is no direct translation for the English copula "to be" in Hiligaynon. However, the prefixes mangin- and nangin- may be used to mean will be and became, respectively.

Example:

Manamì mangín manggaránon
"It is nice to become rich"

The Spanish copula "estar" (to be) has also become a part of the Hiligaynon lexicon. Its meaning and pronunciation have become corrupted. In Hiligaynon it is pronounced as "istar" and means "to live (in)/location"(Compare with the Hiligaynon word "puyô").

Example:

Nagaistar ako sa tabuc suba
"I live in tabuc suba" "tabuc suba" translates to "other side of the river" and is also a barangay in Jaro, Iloilo.

Existential

To indicate the existence of an object, the word may is used.

Example:

May idô (a)ko
"I have a dog"

Hiligaynon linkers

When an adjective modifies a noun, the linker nga links the two.

Example:

Itom nga ido
Black dog

Sometimes, if the linker is preceded by a word that ends in a vowel, glottal stop or the letter N, it becomes acceptable to contract it into -ng, as in Filipino. This is often used to make the words sound more poetic or to reduce the number of syllables. Sometimes the meaning may change as in maayo nga aga and maayong aga. The first meaning: (the) good morning; while the other is the greeting for 'good morning'.

The linker ka is used if a number modifies a noun.

Example:

Anum ka ido
six dogs

Interrogative words

The interrogative words of Hiligaynon are as follows: diin, san-o, sin-o, nga-a, kamusta, ano, and pila

Diin means where.
Example:
Diin ka na subong?
"Where are you now?"

A derivation of diin, tagadiin, is used to inquire the birthplace or hometown of the listener.
Example:
Tagadiin ka?
"Where are you from?"

San-o means when
Example:
San-o inâ?
"When is that?"

Sin-o means who
Example:
Sin-o imo abyan?
"Who is your friend?"

Nga-a means why
Example:
Nga-a indi ka magkadto?
"Why won't you go?"

Kamusta means how, as in "How are you?"
Example:
Kamusta ang tindahan?
"How is the store?"

Ano means what
Example:
Ano ang imo ginabasa?
"What are you reading?"

A derivative of ano, paano, means how, as in "How do I do that?"
Example:
Paano ko makapulî?
"How can I get home?"

A derivative of paano is paanoano an archaic phrase which can be compared with kamusta
Example:
Paanoano ikaw?
"How art thou?"

Pila means how much/how many
Example:
Pila ang maupod sa imo?
"How many are with you?"

A derivative of pila, ikapila, asks the numerical order of the person, as in, "What place were you born in your family?"(first-born, second-born, etc.) This word is notoriously difficult to translate into English, as English has no equivalent.
Example:
Ikapila ka sa inyo pamilya?
"What place were you born into your family?"

A derivative of pila, tagpila, asks the monetary value of something, as in, "How much is this beef?"
Example:
Tagpila ini nga karne sang baka?
"How much is this beef?"

Verbs

Focus

See also: Austronesian alignment

As it is essential for sentence structure and meaning, focus is a key concept in Hiligaynon and other Philippine languages. In English, in order to emphasize a part of a sentence, variation in intonation is usually employed – the voice is stronger or louder on the part emphasized. For example:

1. The man is stealing rice from the market for his sister.
2. The man is stealing rice from the market for his sister.
3. The man is stealing rice from the market for his sister.
4. The man is stealing rice from the market for his sister.
5. The man is stealing rice from the market for his sister with his hands.

Furthermore, active and passive grammatical constructions can be used in English to place focus on the actor or object as the subject:

The man stole the rice. vs. The rice was stolen by the man.

In contrast, sentence focus in Philippine languages is built into the construction by grammatical elements. Focus is marked by verbal affixes and a special particle prior to the noun in focus. Consider the following Hiligaynon translations of the above sentences:

1. Nagakawat ang lalaki sing bugas sa tinda para sa iya utod.
2. Ginakawat sang lalaki ang bugas sa tinda para sa iya utod.
3. Ginakawatan sang lalaki sing bugas ang tinda para sa iya utod.
4. Ginakawatan sang lalaki sing bugas sa tinda ang iya utod.
5. Ikawat sang lalaki sing bugas sa tinda para sa iya utod ang iya kamot.

(lalaki = man; kawat = to steal; bugas = rice; tinda = market; sister = utod; kamot = hand)

Summary

Trigger, Mode and Aspect Affixes for Hiligaynon

TRIGGER		ASPECT	MODE
			Neutral	Purposive	Durative	Causative	Distributive	Cooperative	Dubitative
Agent	Goal	Unreal	-on	pag—on	paga—on	pa—on	pang—on	pakig—on	iga—on
		Real	gin-	gin-	gina-	ginpa-	ginpang-	ginpakig-	ø
	Referent	Unreal	-an	pag—an	paga—an	pa—an	pang—an	pakig—an	iga—an
		Real	gin—an	gin—an	gina—an	ginpa—an	ginpang—an	ginpakig—an	ø
	Accessory	Unreal	i-	ipag-	ipaga-	ipa-	ipang-	ipakig-	iga-
		Real	gin-	gin-	gina-	ginpa-	ginpang-	ginpakig-	ø
	Actor	Unreal	-um-	mag-	maga-	ø	mang-	makig-	ø
		Real	-um-	nag-	naga-	ø	nang-	nakig-	ø
Patient	Actor	Unreal	maka-	makapag-	makapaga-	makapa-	makapang-	mapapakig-	ø
		Real	naka-	nakapag-	nakapaga-	nakapa-	nakapang-	napapakig-	ø
	Goal	Unreal	ma-	mapag-	mapaga-	mapa-	mapang-	mapakig-	ø
		Real	na-	napag-	napaga-	napa-	napang-	napakig-	ø

Reduplication

Hiligaynon, like other Philippine languages, employs reduplication, the repetition of a root or stem of a word or part of a word for grammatical or semantic purposes. Reduplication in Hiligaynon tends to be limited to roots instead of affixes, as the only inflectional or derivational morpheme that seems to reduplicate is -pa-. Root reduplication suggests 'non-perfectiveness' or 'non-telicity'. Used with nouns, reduplication of roots indicate particulars which are not fully actualized members of their class. Note the following examples.

(1)	balay-bálay
	house-house
	toy-house, playhouse

(2)	maestra-maéstra
	teacher-teacher
	make-believe teacher

Reduplication of verbal roots suggests a process lacking a focus or decisive goal. The following examples describe events which have no apparent end, in the sense of lacking purpose or completion. A lack of seriousness may also be implied. Similarly, reduplication can suggest a background process in the midst of a foreground activity, as shown in (5).

(3)	Nag-a-	hìbî-híbî	ang	bátâ.
	NAG-IMP-	cry-cry	FOC	child
	The child has been crying and crying.

(4)	Nag-a-	tinlò-tinlò	akó	sang	lamésa
	NAG-IMP-	clean-clean	1SG.FOC	UNFOC	table
	I'm just cleaning off the table (casually).

(5)	Nag-a-	kàon-káon	gid	silá	sang	mag-abót	ang	íla	bisíta.
	NAG-IMP-	eat-eat	just	3PL.FOC	UNFOC	MAG-arrive	FOC	3PL.UNFOC	visitor
	They were just eating when their visitor arrived.

When used with adjectival roots, non-telicity may suggest a gradualness of the quality, such as the comparison in (6). In comparative constructions the final syllables of each occurrence of the reduplicated root are accented. If the stress of the second occurrence is shifted to the first syllable, then the reduplicated root suggests a superlative degree, as in (7). Note that superlatives can also be created through prefixation of pinaka- to the root, as in pinaka-dakô. While non-telicity can suggest augmentation, as shown in (7), it can also indicate diminishment as in shown in (9), in contrast with (8) (note the stress contrast). In (8b), maàyoáyo, accented in the superlative pattern, suggests a trajectory of improvement that has not been fully achieved. In (9b), maàyoayó suggests a trajectory of decline when accented in the comparative pattern. The reduplicated áyo implies sub-optimal situations in both cases; full goodness/wellness is not achieved.

(6)	Iní	nga	kwárto	ma-dulùm-dulúm	sang	sa	sinâ
	this.FOC	LINK	room	MA-dark-dark	UNFOC	OBL	that.UNFOC
	This room is darker than that one.

(7)	(a)	dakô-dakô
		big-big
		bigger
	(b)	dakô-dákô (gid)
		big-big (really)
		biggest

(8)	(a)	Ma-áyo	ang	reló.
		MA-good	FOC	watch
		The watch is good/functional.
	(b)	Ma-àyo-áyo	na	ang	reló.
		MA-good-good	now	FOC	watch
		The watch is semi-fixed.

(9)	(a)	Ma-áyo	akó.
		MA-good	1SG.FOC
		I'm well.
	(b)	Ma-àyo-ayó	na	akó.
		MA-good-good	now	1SG.FOC
		I'm so so.

Sounds

Hiligaynon has sixteen consonants: /p t k b d ɡ m n ŋ s h w l ɾ j/. There are three main vowels: /a/, /ɛ ~ i/, and /o ~ ʊ/. [i] and [ɛ] (both spelled i) are allophones, with [i] in the beginning and middle and sometimes final syllables and [ɛ] in final syllables. The vowels [ʊ] and [o] are also allophones, with [ʊ] always being used when it is the beginning of a syllable, and [o] always used when it ends a syllable. Consonants [d] and [ɾ] were once allophones but cannot interchange as in other Philippine languages: patawaron (to forgive) [from patawad, forgiveness] but not patawadon, and tagadiín (from where) [from diín, where] but not tagariín.

Loan words

Hiligaynon has a large number of words that derive from Spanish words including nouns (e.g., santo from santo, saint), adjectives (e.g., berde from verde, green), prepositions (e.g., antes from antes, before), and conjunctions (e.g., pero from pero, but). Moreover, Spanish provides the Ilonggo base for items introduced by Spain, e.g., barko (barco, ship), sapatos (zapatos, shoes), kutsilyo (cuchillo, knife), kutsara (cuchara, spoon), tenedor (fork), plato (plate), kamiseta (camiseta, shirt), and kambiyo (cambio, change).

Spanish verbs used in Hiligaynon often remain unconjugated (have the verb endings -ar, -er or -ir) which in Filipino would almost always be conjugated in the 'vos' form, e.g., komparar, mandar, pasar, tener, disponer, mantener, and asistir.

Examples

Numbers

Number	Hiligaynon
1	Isá
2	Duhá
3	Tátlo
4	Ápat
5	Limá
6	Ánum
7	Pitó
8	Waló
9	Siyám
10	Pulò / Napulò
100	Gatós
1000	Líbo
10,000	Laksâ
1,000,000	Hámbad / Ramák
First	Tig-una / Panguná
Second	Ikaduhá
Third	Ikatlo / Ikatátlo
Fourth	Ikap-at / ikaápat
Fifth	Ikalimá
Sixth	Ikán-um / ikaánum
Seventh	Ikapitó
Eighth	Ikawaló
Ninth	Ikasiyám
Tenth	Ikapulò

Days of the week

The names of the days of the week are derived from their Spanish equivalents.

Day	Adlaw
Sunday	Domingo
Monday	Lunes
Tuesday	Martes
Wednesday	Miyerkoles
Thursday	Huwebes
Friday	Biyernes
Saturday	Sábado

Months of the year

The first set of Hiligaynon names of the months are derived from Spanish.

Month	Bulan
January	Enero; ulalong
February	Pebrero; dagangkahoy
March	Marso; dagangbulan
April	Abril; kiling
May	Mayo; himabuyan
June	Hunio; kabay
July	Hulyo; hidapdapan
August	Agosto; lubadlubad
September	Septiyembre; kangurolsol
October	Oktubre; bagyo-bagyo
November	Nobiyembre; panglot-diotay
December	Disiyembre; panglot-daku

Quick phrases

English	Hiligaynon
Yes.	Huo.
No.	Indî.
Thank you.	Salamat.
I'm sorry.	Patawaron mo ako. / Pasaylo-a 'ko. / Pasensyahon mo ako. / Pasensya na.
Help me!	Buligi ako! / Tabangi (a)ko! /
Delicious!	Namit!
Take care.	Halong.
Are you mad?	Akig ka?
I don't know.	Ambot. / Wala ko kabalo.
That's wonderful!	Námì-námì ba! / Nami ah!

Greetings

English	Hiligaynon
Good morning.	Maayong aga.
Good noon.	Maayong ugto./Maayong udto
Good afternoon.	Maayong hapon.
Good evening.	Maayong gab-i.
How are you?	Kamusta ka?/Kamusta ikaw?/Musta na?
I'm fine.	Maayo man.
I am fine, how about you?	Maayo man, ikaw ya?
How old are you?	Pila na ang edad (ni)mo? / Ano ang edad mo? / Pila ka tuig ka na?
I am 25 years old.	Beinte singko anyos na (a)ko./ Duha ka pulo kag lima ka tuig na (a)ko.
I am Erman.	Ako si Erman./Si Erman ako.
What is your name?	Ano imo ngalan?/ Ano ngalan (ni)mo?
I love you.	Palangga ta ka./Ginahigugma ko ikaw.
Thank you very much.	Salamat gid./ Madamo gid nga salamat.

This, that, and whatnot...

English	Hiligaynon
What is this?	Ano (i)ni?
This is a sheet of paper.	Isa ni ka panid sang papel./Isa ka panid ka papel ini.
What is that?	Ano (i)nâ?
That is a book.	Libro (i)nâ.
What will you do?	Ano ang himu-on (ni)mo? / Ano ang buhaton (ni)mo? / Maano ka?
What are you doing?	Ano ang ginahimo (ni)mo? / Gaano ka?
I don't know.	Ambot / wala ko kabalo
My girl friend/boy friend	Ang akon miga/migo
My girlfriend/boyfriend (lovers)	Ang akon nubya/nubyo

Space and time

English	Hiligaynon
Where are you now?	Diin ka subong?
Where shall we go?	Diin (ki)ta makadto?
Where are we going?	Diin (ki)ta pakadto?
Where are you going?	(Sa) diin ka makadto?
We shall go to Bacolod.	Makadto (ki)ta sa Bacolod.
I am going home.	Mapa-uli na ko (sa balay). / (Ma)puli na ko.
Where do you live?	Diin ka naga-istar?/Diin ka naga-puyô?
Where did you come from? (Where have you just been?)	Diin ka (nag)-halin?
Have you been here long?	Dugay ka na di(ri)?
(To the) left.	(Sa) wala.
(To the) right.	(Sa) tuo.
What time is it?	Ano('ng) takna na?/Ano('ng) oras na?
It's ten o'clock.	Alas diyes na.
What time is it now?	Ano ang oras subong? or Ano oras na?

The marketplace

English	Hiligaynon
May I buy?	Pwede ko ma(g)-bakal?
How much is this/that?	Tag-pilá iní/inâ?

The Lord's Prayer

File:The Ten Commandments in Hiligaynon at Molo Church, Iloilo.jpg

The Ten Commandments in Hiligaynon at Molo Church, Molo, Iloilo City.

Amay namon, nga yara ka sa mga langit
Pagdayawon ang imo ngalan
Umabot sa amon ang imo ginharian
Matuman ang imo buot
Diri sa duta siling sang sa langit
Hatagan mo kami nian sing kan-on namon
Sa matag-adlaw
Kag patawaron mo kami sa mga sala namon
Siling nga ginapatawad namon ang nakasala sa amon
Kag dili mo kami ipagpadaug sa mga panulay
Hinunuo luwason mo kami sa kalaut
Amen.

Translation of Catholic version Ten Commandments written in photo:
1.Believe in God and worship only him
2.Do not use the name of God without purpose
3.Honor the day of the Lord
4.Honor your father and mother
5.Do not kill
6.Do not pretend to be married against virginity (don't commit adultery)
7.Do not steal
8.Do not lie
9.Do not have desire for the wife of your fellow man
10.Do not covet the riches of your fellow man

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Ang Kalibutánon nga Pahayag sang mga Kinamaatárung sang Katáwhan)

Ang tanán nga táwo ginbún-ag nga hílway kag may pag-alalangay sa dungóg kag kinamatárong. Silá ginhatágan sang pagpamat-ud kag balatyágon kag nagakadápat nga magbinuligáy sa kahulugan sang pag-inuturáy.

Every person is born free and equal with honor and rights. They are given reason and conscience and they must always trust each other for the spirit of brotherhood.

Children's books

Ang Bukid nga Nagpalangga sang Pispis

Ang Bukid nga Nagpalangga sang Pispis is a fully illustrated, colored children's picture book. The original story is The Mountain That Loved A Bird by Alice McLerran. Originally published in the United States with illustrations by Eric Carle, the story has been translated to Hiligaynon by Genevieve L. Asenjo and illustrated with new art by Beaulah Pedregosa Taguiwalo drawn from the landscapes of the Philippines.

The publisher is Mother Tongue Publishing Inc.[1], a new publishing company based in Manila, Philippines formed in November 2006 by Mario and Beaulah Taguiwalo. Their mission is to publish books in as many languages as possible. They are inspired by the words of science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin: “Literature takes shape and life in the body, in the wombs of the mother tongue.” They also agree with neuro-scientist Elkhonon Goldberg who refers to mother tongues as “an extremely adaptive and powerful device for modeling not only what is, but also what will be, what could be, and what we want and do not want to be.”

See also

• Hiligaynon people
• Western Visayas
• Negros Occidental
• Languages of the Philippines
• Kinaray-a language

Noted Hiligaynon writers

• Peter Solis Nery (born 1969) Prolific writer, poet, playwright, novelist, editor, "Hari sang Binalaybay", and champion of the Hiligaynon language. Born in Dumangas, Iloilo. [2]
• Antonio Ledesma Jayme (1854–1937) Lawyer, revolutionary, provincial governor and assemblyman. Born in Jaro, lived in Bacolod City.
• Graciano López Jaena (1856–1896) Journalist, orator, and revolutionary from Iloilo, well known for his written works, La Solidaridad and Fray Botod. Born in Jaro.
• Flavio Zaragoza y Cano (1892–1994) Lawyer, journalist and the "Prince of Visayan poets". Born in Janipaan.[3].
• Conrado Saquian Norada (1921– ) Lawyer, intelligence officer and governor of Iloilo from 1969–1986. Co-founder and editor of Yuhum magazine. Born in Iloilo City. [4]
• Ramon Muzones (?-?) Born in Molo. [5]
• Magdalena Jalandoni (1891–1978) Prolific writer, novelist and feminist. Born in Jaro.[6]
• Angel Magahum Sr. (1876–1931) Writer, editor and composer. Composed the classic Iloilo ang Banwa Ko, the unofficial song of Iloilo. Born in Molo.[7]
• Valente Cristobal (1875–1945) Noted Hiligaynon playwright. Born in Polo (now Valenzuela City), Bulacan. [8]

References

• English-Tagalog Ilongo Dictionary (2007) by Tomas Alvarez Abuyen, National Book Store. ISBN 971-08-6865-9.

External links

• Omniglot on Hiligaynon Writing
• Ilonggo Community & Discussion Board

Dictionaries

• Hiligaynon Dictionary
• Hiligaynon to English Dictionary
• English to Hiligaynon Dictionary
• Bansa.org Hiligaynon Dictionary
• Kaufmann's 1934 Hiligaynon dictionary on-line
• Diccionario de la lengua Bisaya Hiligueina y Haraya de la Isla de Panay (by Alonso de Méntrida, published in 1841)

Learning Resources

• Some information about learning Ilonggo
• Hiligaynon Lessons (by Cecile L. Motus. 1971)
• Hiligaynon Reference Grammar (by Elmer Wolfenden 1971)

Writing System (Baybayin)

• Baybayin – The Ancient Script of the Philippines
• The evolution of the native Hiligaynon alphabet
• The evolution of the native Hiligaynon alphabet: Genocide
• The importance of the Hiligaynon 32-letter alphabet

Primary Texts

• Online E-book of Ang panilit sa pagcasal ñga si D.ª Angela Dionicia: sa mercader ñga contragusto in Hiligaynon, published in Mandurriao, Iloilo (perhaps, in the early 20th century)

Secondary Literature

• Language and Desire in Hiligaynon (by Corazón D. Villareal. 2006)
• Missionary Linguistics: selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, March 13–16th, 2003 (ed. by Otto Zwartjes and Even Hovdhaugen)