Kapampangan 1y1y3z

Manalo, Angelica D.

A-438

1. What is a dialect? What is language? Are they the same or not? Why? According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, a dialect is a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists. It is a variation of a given language spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people. Language is a body of words and the systems for their use common to people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition. Dialect and language is not in reality distinct from each other. Dialect is under the umbrella of language, it one of the variety of language thus making it not exactly separate from the latter. 2. Is Kapampangan a language or a dialect? Why? Kapampangan is one of the major languages in the Philippines. It is the for the reason that the Kapampangan language spoken in the province of Pampanga, some barangays in Tarlac and Bataan, also understood in some barangays of Bulacan and Nueva Ecija and by the Aetas of Zambales. 3.

What is the Philippine national language?

The Tagalog was the basis of the national language of the Philippines during the commonwealth, and then changed into Pilipino in the late 1950’s. It was further amended in the 1973 constitution states that the Philippine national language is Filipino and still adapted by the 1987 constitution. 4. What is the official language in the Philippines? There are two official languages in the Philippines, mainly the Filipino and English language as declared in the 1897 constitution.

Sources: https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=dialect&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapampangan_language