Keeping in Mind our Mother Tongue

ILOKANO is what people call us with our own dialects or so called mother tongue, the Iloko.

                We are not indigenous like others but little by little our language and other thing will soon become extinct.

                As a teenager, I realize some significant points in life especially in caring good our traditions and cultures. Ilocano’s before preserved different things, old houses, buildings, literary works and many more that proves people became more intelligent in taking good care of own materials.

                Nowadays, people became more fanatic on modernization, making sense to forget those preserved materials and non-materials by our ninuno’s. Yes. We wanted progression but don’t use progression to say goodbye to dear dialect and preserved things.

                What is the use of preservation if we are not willing to learn, accept and love things made before?

                Our mother tongue, the iloko, serves us a communication to other people or Ilocano’s making in one our dreams, projects and works is successful one.

                Be thankful that we have this dialect, be proud of. Here in our country, there were lot of dialects used by Filipinos but iloko is one of most used dialect.

                Dr. Jose Rizal said:”Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika ay mas mabaho pa kaysa malansang isda”. It’s true. Love, acceptance and cooperation are things we must keep in mind to take our mother tongue alive ill the next generation of life. J