Talk:Hiligaynon language: Difference between revisions

 

:Despite knowing a dozen or so people from [[Bacolod]], and asking a few filipino wikipedians, I can't find a definitive answer to this either. I think they are two dialects of the same language. My bacolod friends say they can't understand the Hiligaynon spoken in [[Ilo ilo]] because there are words used there that aren't used by Bacolod filipinos, but when someone from bacolod is talking with someone from Ilo ilo, they speak Ilonggo/Hiligaynon (rather than a lingua franca such as Tagalog or English). [[User:Gronky|Gronky]] 10:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 

:Probably the reason why people from negros cant understand people from Iloilo is because of the influence from Kinaray-a spoken by a lot of people from Iloilo. From what I know through, Hiligaynon from Iloilo and from Negros are virtually identical, discounting possible influence from kinaray-a. Also regarding whether the language is properly called Ilonggo or Hiligaynon has not been concluded yet. My guess is that the difference between Ilonggo and Hiligaynon is like the difference between Espanol and Castellano (Spaniards prefer to call the language Castellano because there are other languages spoken in Spain while people in Latin America probably refer to the language as Espanol)[[User:Richarddr1234|Richarddr1234]], August 25, 2008 <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment was added at 05:41, 25 August 2008 (UTC)</small><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->