This is one of the three articles I moved from my now-defunct blog, Hiligaynon kag Kinaray-a. I decided to delete the blog and focus on this blog. It doesn't really matter that the topics contained in this blog are now a little too different from each other. I can categorize the different articles anyway. Anyway, here are the links to the other articles.
Some things about Kinaray-a
Kinaray-a & Ilocano
For quite a long time now, some local academicians have been spreading the idea that Hiligaynon traces its origin to Kinaray-a. Even Aklanon, they say, comes from Kinaray-a. "The mother language of West Visayas is Kinaray-a or Hiraya," says Dr. Leoncio P. Deriada. How true is this?
If this claim is to be believed, they very much go against the researches done by linguists several years back. Those researches resulted to classifications and groupings of the different languages in the Philippines. According to those, Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a both belong to the Bisayan branch of the Central Philippines subgroup of the large Meso-Philippines language group. However, if we go further, Kinaray-a is found to belong to the West sub-branch of the Bisayan language sub-sub-grouping (where it joins Aklanon, Malaynon, Kinaray-a, Cuyonon, Inonhan, and Caluyanun), while Hiligaynon belongs to the Central sub-branch of the Bisayan language sub-sub-grouping. (Please check the whole Philippine language tree in Carl Rubino's website. A similar tree can be found in Jessie Grace Rubrico's website.)
I am not very familiar with how this tree (I mean the whole language tree) has been arrived at, but I'm working on it right now. I need to know how the researchers did it, what methods they used, etc. Rubrico included her references in her website, but I don't know where I can download copies of those articles, manuscripts, etc.
But if ever I find them, the readings, I'm sure it will solve the conflict between the two claims. So is Kinaray-a the mother of Western Visayan languages? I'll tell you about it next time.
(Originally published on October 26, 2005)
If this claim is to be believed, they very much go against the researches done by linguists several years back. Those researches resulted to classifications and groupings of the different languages in the Philippines. According to those, Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a both belong to the Bisayan branch of the Central Philippines subgroup of the large Meso-Philippines language group. However, if we go further, Kinaray-a is found to belong to the West sub-branch of the Bisayan language sub-sub-grouping (where it joins Aklanon, Malaynon, Kinaray-a, Cuyonon, Inonhan, and Caluyanun), while Hiligaynon belongs to the Central sub-branch of the Bisayan language sub-sub-grouping. (Please check the whole Philippine language tree in Carl Rubino's website. A similar tree can be found in Jessie Grace Rubrico's website.)
I am not very familiar with how this tree (I mean the whole language tree) has been arrived at, but I'm working on it right now. I need to know how the researchers did it, what methods they used, etc. Rubrico included her references in her website, but I don't know where I can download copies of those articles, manuscripts, etc.
But if ever I find them, the readings, I'm sure it will solve the conflict between the two claims. So is Kinaray-a the mother of Western Visayan languages? I'll tell you about it next time.
(Originally published on October 26, 2005)
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