We are born in this world with our own language. With the particular dialect used in the place of our birth. Her in our province, Ilocos Sur, Iloco was known to be our native language. It is also used in many parts of the region like in Ilocos Norte, La Union and some places in Pangasinan. Even in other regions like Tarlac and Nueva Ecija had Iloco as their mother tongue. However, the number of the people using it now became smaller compared to the past years. But why?
I think and I believe that one of the reasons why it got fewer is because of the passing of time. We are now living in a highly developed and progressive realm and people used to discover and make things and different gadgets that affects the thinking of human that's why they tend to imitate and mimic the language used in making these things. Another cause is because people don't want to use their language, instead they adopt the language of different places and even in different countries. There are those parents who don't want their children use Iloco so they teach them if not Tagalog is English. There are even those who chose to change some words and make their own own word such as the gays who use the gay lingo, the jejemon and others. It is sad that there are Ilocanos who don't even know Iloco words and how to speak it.
Now's the time for us to change these wrong doings. We must bring back to our tongue our own language. We must be proud of what we are and we must be proud of our mother tongure
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