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	Hiligaynon Language
		Hiligaynon is an Austronesian language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines.
		Hiligaynon is concentrated in the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental.
		The language is referred to as “Ilonggo” in Negros Occidental and in Iloilo.
	www.negrosislandonline.com /2007/02/12/hiligaynon-language (374 words)

	hiligaynon
		The Hiligaynons were called upon to render services for the encomienderos, either to work in the haciendas or in the construction of churches.
		The Hiligaynon generic term for disease and pain is sakit and nagmasakit is the state of being bedridden.
		Although Hiligaynon villages have been exposed to modern medicine, they still consult folk healers when they are ill. The folk healers are consulted on matters connected with saw-id, and ailment attributed to the workings of evil spirits or spirits from the forest.
	litera1no4.tripod.com /hiligaynon_frame.html (16451 words)

	Hiligaynon language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hiligaynon is an Austronesian language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines.
		Hiligaynon is concentrated in the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental.
		The language is referred to as "Ilonggo" in Negros Occidental and in Iloilo.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hiligaynon_language (552 words)

	About Culture and Arts
		Hiligaynon is the lingua franca of the West Visayas in Central Philippines.
		The mother language of West Visayas is Kinaray-a or Hiraya, the language spoken by the central and southern towns of Iloilo, all of the province of Antique and most of Capiz.
		Hiligaynon is spoken in Iloilo City in all the coastal towns north of Iloilo City, in all of Guimaras, in most of Roxas City in Capiz, and in Bacolod City and most of the towns of Negros Occidental.
	www.ncca.gov.ph /about_cultarts/comarticles.php?artcl_Id=137 (1391 words)

	Hiligaynon language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hiligaynon or Ilonggo is an Austronesian language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines.
		Hiligaynon is concentrated in the province of Iloilo.
		The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Hiligaynon_language.html (796 words)

	Ilocano (Ilokano) Language
		Because of the importance of Ilocano in Northern Luzon, it has been called the "National Language of the North." Many ethnic groups from the northern regions of the country are more at home in their second language, Ilocano, than the national language of the country, Tagalog (Pilipino).
		This is undoubtedly due to the historical prestige of the language and the accessibility of its speakers.
		All the languages of the archipelago are Western Austronesian of the Philippine type except the languages left behind by colonization: English, Spanish, and the language of a powerful merchant class, Hokkien Chinese.
	iloko.tripod.com /Ilocano.html (549 words)

	Do you speak Bisaya?
		Hiligaynon is known for its sing-song intonation and is popularly known as a tender language.
		It is the language of commerce and of vernacular literature in Western Visayas in the past.
		Non-Cebuanos' general impression of the language is that it is spoken in a rapid and loud manner.
	www.thenewstoday.info /2006/07/14/do.you.speak.bisaya.html (788 words)

	Hiligaynon
		The Hiligaynon language is the language of Iloilo province, which has come to be spoken throughout the Western Visayas region.
		Hiligaynon intonation is noted for its gentle lilt under which, it is said, a curse may go unrecognized.
		Hiligaynon people view the government and the justice system as corrupt, because wealthy people are able to bribe officials to receive the verdicts they desire.
	www.everyculture.com /wc/Norway-to-Russia/Hiligaynon.html (2022 words)

	Hiligaynon Bible (c) International Bible Society
		This IBS translation of the New Testament is for the Hiligaynon language, which is primarily used in Philippines.
		This translation uses an informal language style and applies a meaning-based translation philosophy.
		It is translated from the biblical languages and was completed in 1996.
	www.ibs.org /bibles/hiligaynon/index.php (86 words)

	Languages
		Language maps, showing the language for each region of the Philippines, can be viewed at the Ethnologue web site.
		The major languages of the northern region are Ilokano, Tagalog, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan languages which are located in northern and central Luzon.
		The southern Philippine languages such as Maranao and Subanun are concentrated in Mindanao.
	www.filipinolanguages.com /languages.html (247 words)

	Visayan Languages
		Visayan is the name of the language family In the central islands of the Philippines.
		It is the language of the Cebu province.
		This language is closer to Hiligaynon than Cebuano.
	www.filipinolanguages.com /visayan_new.htm (210 words)

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		Language capability will be recorded on the DD Form 1966 series (Record of Military Processing Armed Forces of the United States) on page 1 and in the "remarks" section.
		General Language testing is given to Army members who have received foreign language training at Government expense, who claim knowledge of a foreign language as a result of civilian education, residence in a foreign country, or family usage, or whose records indicate previous language study.
		These personnel, trained in a foreign language in preparation for a specific assignment, continue to be identified as linguist assets after their initial use and are routinely considered for subsequent linguist assignments.
	www.fas.org /irp/doddir/army/ar611-6.htm (11791 words)

	Lowlands-L Anniversary Celebration
		Hiligaynon is used in other parts of the Philippines as well, such as on Mindoro island, where it arrived with migrants and has taken on Tagalog influences.
		Being a member of the Visayan group of languages, Hiligaynon is closely related to languages such as Masbatenyo and Waray-Waray.
		Hiligaynon is a written language and is featured rather dominantly within the area of Visayan literature.
	www.lowlands-l.net /anniversary/hiligaynon-info.php (259 words)

	The Philippine Language
		Filipino is the common language used between speakers of different native languages, which are closely related but not mutually intelligible.
		Filipino is that native language which is used nationally as the language of communication among ethnic groups.
		Like any living language, Filipino is in a process of development through loans from Philippine languages and non-native languages for various situations, among speakers of different social backgrounds, and for topics for conversation and scholarly discourse.
	www.e-travelphilippines.com /language.htm (244 words)

	Intro to Tagalog Language
		One of the factors that complicate the language situation in the Philippines is diversity.
		Philippine language experts predict, especially after the 1987 Constitutional deliberations, that Pilipino will be renamed Filipino characterized by an openness to borrowings from the other Philippine languages as well as from English, Spanish, and other foreign languages (Gonzales 1991: 126).
		There are other prominent feautres of the language such as; the use of markers in a sentence, the reduplication of a syllable in a word, and the use of particles between words and phrases.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /Tagalog/Tagalog_Homepage99/the_tagalog_language.htm (938 words)

	Language Reference Page
		The current languages are mostly those used for my doctoral work, but I intend to continue adding languages as I have time and as I find good sources of text in electronic form.
		Hiligaynon is an Austronesian/Western Malayo-Polynesian language, related to Cebuano and Bikol.
		Manx is officially classified as an extinct language, though efforts are underway to revive it on the Isle of Man, and there are reportedly around 200 adult speakers.
	complingone.georgetown.edu /~langid/ref_langs.html (2141 words)

	Philippines - Language Diversity and Uniformity
		Some eleven languages and eighty-seven dialects were spoken in the Philippines in the late 1980s.
		Language divisions were nowhere more apparent than in the continuing public debate over national language.
		Speakers of another regional language would most likely continue to use that language at home, Pilipino in ordinary conversation in the cities, and English for commerce, government, and international relations.
	countrystudies.us /philippines/36.htm (476 words)

	Hiligaynonor ilonggo Translation Service - English to Hiligaynonor ilonggo Translation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Language is a living thing it develops and changes constantly.
		To ensure our translators keep abreast of the language our Hiligaynonor ilonggo translators live in-county and translate into their mother tongue.
		Professional translators whose native language is English and speak fluent Hiligaynonor ilonggo perform our Hiligaynonor ilonggo to English translation.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/hiligaynonor_ilonggo_translation.shtml (464 words)

	News of the Church/December
		Some of the other languages that have translations of selections of the book are in the process of receiving a full translation.
		Hiligaynon is an Austronesian language that is spoken in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines.
		The language is mostly used in the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental.
	www.lds.org /library/display/0,4945,40-1-3311-1,00.html (177 words)

	Linguist List - Web Resource Listings
		Amarauna Languages: World Languages Network AMARAUNA is a project which aims to promote the linguistic rights and its goal is to strengthen relations among people and institutions that have realized about the importance of the heritage and diversity of the languages of the world.
		Center for Research in Language (CRL): The Center for Research in Language (CRL) brings together faculty, students and research associates who share an interest in the nature of language, the processes by which it is acquired and used, and the mediation of language in the human brain.
		Natural Language and Communication Group of IRST: The Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division (previously known as Natural Language Processing and Communication group) is part of ITC-IRST (Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica), a research institute of ITC (Istituto Trentino di Cultura).
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/sp/Projects.html (8465 words)

	Independent Catholic News
		Father O'Brien had a passion for language as the expression of a people's culture and rejected the description of the Hiligaynon language, which he spoke fluently, as a 'dialect.' The Samaria retreats, given by a team of laymen and a priest, were entirely in that language.
		Out of the experience of working with men who were natural leaders in their communities he produced books and pamphlets in Hiligaynon for Sunday services in distant barrios that couldn't have Mass on a regular basis.
		A totally different legacy is the kibbutz he set up in the early 70s in a mountain area of Tabugon, Negros Occidental, to enable poor farmers to enjoy the fruits of their labour as a cooperative.
	www.indcatholicnews.com /frniall.html (825 words)

	Language - Population - Philippines - Asia
		These languages and dialects belong to the Malayo-Polynesian group of the Austronesian language family.
		It was made the national language in 1987 in an attempt to address the fact that no two of the indigenous languages are mutually comprehensible.
		Spanish never became a widely used or learned language in the Philippines, in contrast to the Spanish colonies in the Americas, because the Spanish friars used the vernacular to introduce Catholicism to the indigenous population.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/philippines/population/language.htm (210 words)

	Sanrokan News Magazine Romblon Province, Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The languages of Romblon, as well as all languages native to the Philippines, belong to the Austronesian language family, which includes languages spoken in China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and 25 other countries in insular and mainland Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.
		All of the languages of the Philippines except Samalan (Blust 1991) are classified as Philippine languages under the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian.
		It is important to remember that, although linguists subgroup languages by shared similarities and differences in order to discover the historical relationships between these languages, each language may also have similarities to languages from other groups, especially when two languages have been used in close proximity to one another.
	sanrokan.com /old/jul8/feature_lobel.htm (3771 words)

	Philippinenews.com
		It was stipulated in this constitution that the national language to be adopted must be based on one of the existing languages spoken by the people of the Philippines.
		One of the duties of the Institute was to choose a native language, which is to be used as a basis for the evolution and adoption of the Philippine national language.
		Moreover, the Tagalog literature is full of studies supporting Tagalog as the best developed of all the native languages, from the Spanish era up to the period of the Commonwealth.
	www.philippinenews.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=e4e73600c76656f6bc5a61971441d50c (1252 words)

	Linguist List - Web Resource Listings
		Language Aid: Language Aid International is an NGO that promotes the study of both local and foreign languages.
		Language Miniatures: A site on which 900-word essays are posted once a month in which a topic relating to all aspects of language and linguistics is presented in an easily readable, non-technical way.
		The language partner is someone who speaks the language you study as their native language and is studying your native language.
	linguistlist.org /sp/LangAnalysis.html (8277 words)

	The Hail Mary in Various Languages
		Utshiokwe is a language from the Belgian Congo.
		Xosa is a language from the Capa Colony of Africa.
		Luo is one of the languages spoken in Kenya.
	campus.udayton.edu /mary/resources/flhm3.html (1990 words)

	DAILY STAR People & Events
		Literary works of well-known Hiligaynon writers will be on exhibit at Museo Iloilo in Iloilo City starting today up to June 30.
		Some of the literary masterpieces in Hiligaynon in the exhibit are Halad by Flavio Cano Zaragoza, Angya by Magdalena Jalandoni, Mater Dolorosa by Serapion Torre, Ambahanon sa Kaanyag by Gregorio Palmejar, Sa Duta Kong Natubuan by Santiago Alv.
		Hiligaynon writers from Negros Occidental, Antique, Aklan, Capiz and Guimaras have also been invited to view the exhibits.*RPGumabong
	www.visayandailystar.com /2003/June/11/people.htm (392 words)

	TravelBlog \| Languages \| Hiligaynon Information
		The Language information on TravelBlog will continue to increase, we hope to have more detailed information on Hiligaynon soon.
		But in the meantime, the chances are that the 101 Languages of the World software package may include Hiligaynon.
		Languages of the World teaches you to use real language, in context, using the widest variety of interactive activities available from any multi-language learning product today.
	www.travelblog.org /World/hiligaynon-language.html (211 words)

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