Importance Of Ilocano Language In The Philippines

In a world we live in, language is a necessity. It is because language is a form of understanding in a community where everyone stays. It is the basic formula of an individual to communicate and to mingle to others by way of either non-verbal or verbal communication whether in local places of the Philippines or abroad. Its function gives vital role to society where people come and go with different purposes and who come from different lives, cultures, and traditions. People do the actions to let a language effective in conversation in a society. I, as a native born Filipino, our country is blessed with multi-languages use in each region which other nations, and states do not have. Being born as an Ilocano language speaker, this regional language I usually used with my friends, classmates, relatives and neighbors give me confidence to talk the language with them. I am very grateful with my regional language Ilocano which is widely spoken not

In Damorftis Rosario, where I grown up. Ilocano language is spreadly used in our barangay when I was still a child. Most of us living their- both yong and adults are native speakers of Ilocano. However, when I started to work as a teacher at the age of 25, that was the time when I had to move to other place because of my work. When suddenly I went home, I was shocked because most of the children from our neighbors donot understand me when I speak Ilocano to them. The old people told me that “Itagalog mu kasi tagalog sila”. It only imples that children of the 21st century generation in a certain community prefers to speak the national language morte than their enherited language or native language. I know that in a nation like Philippines with multi languages use, it is easier to communicate among ourselves when using the national language Filipino since it is the official one to use in different transactions among us Filipinos from different regions in Luzon, Visayas, and