Cebuano

And it reminds me of something I read about recently.

In Cebuano sorcery, if you're trying to petition a spirit to be, like, your spiritual sponsor on the other side, an offering of meat is very common, and you would leave it out in the forest.

And if the spirit accepts, they will take the meat.

So I wonder if at some point in the history of this place, someone made a deal with a spirit in the area, and now they have to keep feeding it meat.

An example is my nanay.

My nanay is Bisaya.

She's from the Bisaya region of the Philippines.

And what that means is that she can speak Bisaya.

She can speak Tagalog.

She can speak English.

And more than that, she can actually speak an even more granular, even more specific language from her area called Butuanon.

Butuanon, which is Bisaya mixed with another language.

Austronesian is a close-knit language family spoken across much of Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Madagascar, and the Pacific Islands.

Some of the major languages in this family include Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Tagalog, Cebuano, and Malagasy.

We know the Austronesian migration began at least around 4,200 years ago, as this is when characteristic Austronesian red pottery and rectangular stone adzes, axe-like tools, appear on islands south of Taiwan.

The extraordinary seafaring abilities of Austronesians were underpinned by the outrigger canoe, but it is unclear which other factors propelled their expansion.

He is a leading figure in the promotion of regional literature in history.

As founding director of the Cebuano Studies Center, an important research institution which placed Cebu in the research and documentation map, he pioneered Cebuano and national identity formation.

He also wrote books notable for their readability, depth and critical rigor.

Over a period of 60 years, Mogers published more than 120 books, monographs, anthologies and essays in diverse forms, fiction, journalism, literary criticism and cultural studies.

Among them are Waiting for Mariyang McKeeling, Essays in Philippine, Cultural History.

Brains of the Nation, Pedro Paterno, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes and the Production of Modern Knowledge.

The Feast of the Santo Niño, An Introduction to the History of a Cebuano Devotion.

Interrogations in Philippine Cultural History, the Ateneo de Manila Lectures and his last published book, The Magnum Opus, Enigmatic Objects, Notes Towards a History of the Museum in the Philippines.

The young Rene spent the war in Manila and then Cebu, the home city of both his parents.

Baptized Renario Banag-Banag Quijano Boss, he was named after his maternal grandfather, Juan Quijano, a Philippine independent church bishop, independence activist and writer-slash-publisher, whose pen name was Banag-Banag, Cebuano for Daybreak.

His father, Maximo Boss, was a leading Cebuano writer.

His aunt, Gardia Patra Quijano, a dentist like her sister Humaya, René's mother, is credited with writing an early feminist work in Cebuano.

As a young man, René wanted to be either a doctor or a lawyer, but with literary roots on both sides, Bani, as he was called by close relatives, naturally fell into writing and journalism.

At Arilano High School, he contributed articles in the vernacular.

I am a native Tagalog speaker and I'm currently learning Cebuano and I'd have to learn it pretty much the same way a Tagalog speaker would learn Spanish from zero.

I'm doing flashcards, language learning app, daily practice, everything.

So when somebody tells me Bisaya or Cebuano is just a dialect, I have receipts now.

Hi, I'm Chloe.

I was born and raised in Manila, Philippines.

I've actually been really sick this week but I did not want to go A week without posting a new episode on Spotify or YouTube if you're watching on YouTube.

That just shows how dedicated I am to this podcast.

So in today's episode, we're talking about Tagalog versus Bisaya.