“Asino kadi ti maidayaw nu di ket ti Ilokano met lang nu ipukkaw tayo nga Ilokano tayo? Asinu kadi ti haan nga maidayaw nu di ket bagbagi tay met lang nu ibain tayo ti Iloko?"
We have been taught how to speak Tagalog and English in order to communicate with other people. But this doesn’t mean that we can forget already the dialect which has been passed by the men who have once inhibited the vicinity we are in today.
In every province, they have their own dialect which is their medium when they speak to anybody. We communicate everyday using Iloko. Because of this, we are able to survive from everyday hardship because we can get what we need if we use this dialect. But because of the economy progress, people tend to forget where they have been and what they had used in order to get there. People adopt to change that easy, and that is one of the reasons why the Iloko dialect is being forgotten. We must not be naïve and that gullible to be driven away from the truth that we are Ilocanos ready to serve our province. True enough, we must step forward but in that step, we must bring with us the whole things which have been an important item in our life.
Before knowing how to talk to people from afar, let us learn first how to talk to people who are near. Iloko first, before others.
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