Frankie Pangilinan reveals confusion over her Filipino language
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Frankie Pangilinan on learning three Filipino languages as a kid, “I was once a Kapampangalog-speaking, Bisaya-accented child.”
Frankie Pangilinan once again expressed on Twitter her struggles with language but this time, it's not the English dialect.
On the social media site, the 19-year-old writer and singer revealed that she recently found out that her Filipino vocabulary isn't exactly what she thought it would to be.
“I just found out a significant portion of my 'Filipino' vocabulary isn't even 'Filipino' per se because my parents speak a mixture of Tagalog and Kapampangan and didn't bother to discern for us ever.
“So now, I'm vaguely trilingual but I don't know how to split the two languages. Help.”
In a follow-up Tweet, Frankie also shared that she had a heavy Bisaya accent growing up, a characteristic she's learned from their household help.
“Also, growing up I had an aggressive Bisaya accent because my yaya was from Bohol and I didn't know I had an accent until someone told me in public.
“So now you see why I get so anxious speaking Filipino in those contexts.”
She then wrote, “So in conclusion, I was once a Kapampangalog-speaking, Bisaya-accented child. How characteristically chaotic.”
SO IN CONCLUSION i was once a kapampangalog speaking bisaya-accented child how characteristically chaotic
-- kakie (@kakiep83) April 22, 2020
In the comments section, a few of her followers noted how they felt the same way when they used a different dialect in a conversation.
Netizens' share their confusion over Filipino dialects. / Source @kakiep83 (Twitter)
Others described the teenager as unique for knowing three languages at a young age.
Netizens' comments on Frankie Pangilinan's tweet. Source @kakiep83 (Twitter)
In 1940, the Filipino language was hailed as the national language of the Philippines through the passing of the Commonwealth Act No. 570. Filipino uses a standardized variety of Tagalog language together with other regional languages widely spoken in the Philippines.
Today's Filipino language is best described as “Tagalog-based” as they are linguistically the same -- sharing, among other things, the same grammatical structure.
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