Intimacy of National and Native Languages

           In every month in August, we Filipinos always commemorate the Buwan ng Wika or the Linggo ng Wika which we jubilate our native languages and our national language which is the Filipino.

Filipino is elucidate by the Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino/ KWF) as the vernacular language that is used in speaking and writing in urban centers of the archipelago.

In the current days here in the Philippines and maybe to some other countries, too, the new generations of people/ citizen are somewhat nauseate on using their own language. Some more partial in using foreign languages like English, Korean, Japanese, Spanish and etcetera.

       Some are constrained in using the native language of their country when they go to different places or destinations because they think that they don’t belong or fit in into the new era and for some to say that they don’t know the trend of the modern day.

Source: https://www.tagaloglang.com/buwan-ng-wika-2019/

This is called ‘Language Shaming’. Like other forms of stigma, language shaming may have disadvantageous effects on the groups or even individuals concerned that may lead to social alienation.

Why would you disgust your own language when in the first place it was the first language you’ve learned? Why would you rather use foreign than those native languages of your homeland? Let’s not be disparage, we should enrich and love our own. As Dr. Jose Rizal said, “Ang hindi marunong magmahal sa sariling wika ay higit pa sa malansang isda” in English “He who does not love his own language is worse than a smelly fish.”