FILIPINO SA KONSTITUSYON: IBA T IBANG PAGBASA, IBA T IBANG DISKURSO

SINO SI LOPE K. SANTOS?y Haligi ng panitikang Tagalog dahil sa kanyang nobelang Banaag at Sikat y Babad sa pulitika dahil sa posisyong gobernador ng Rizal at senador ng bansa y Labor leader na nagturo ng Marxismo at Sosyalismo sa mga mangagawang Pilipino

ySumulat ng Balarila ng Wikang

Pambansa

BALARILA NG WIKANG PAMBANSAy Ang abakada ng wikang Tagalog na siyang naging

daan upang mailagay: 1. Ang Tagalog sa Konstitusyon ng 1935 2. Ang pauunlaring Filipino sa Konstitusyon ng 1973, at 3. Ang Filipino, bilang Wikang Pambansa sa Konstitusyon ng 1986

Seksiyong 6 hanggang 9, circa 1986

Seksiyon Animy Ang wikang pambansa ng Pilipinas ay Filipino.

Samantalang nalilinang, dapat itong payabungin at pagyamanin pa salig sa umiiral na mga wikang Pilipino at iba pang mga wika.y The national language of the Philippines is Filipino. As

it evolves, it shall be further developed and enriched on the basis of existing Philippine and other languages.

Vicente Albano Pacisy Kolumnista ng PDI y Sinabing mabuting probisyon iyon sapagkat it

stopped the inward development of the Filipino.

It stopped the inward development of the Filipino.y Totoo nga ba ang pagbibintang na ito? Mula ba

halimbawa noong 1973, hanggang isinulat ito ni Pacis sa kanyang kolum ay walang pumasok na salitang dayuhan sa wikang Filipino o mga salita mula sa mga diyalekto?y Perestroika at glasnost ni Gorbachev y Summit ni Bush y Petroscam ni Arroyo

It stopped the inward development of the Filipino.y Ang broadcast ng Radyo Bombo sa Cebu noong

Disyembre 5, 1989 sa kainitan ng kudeta: y may dalang isang bulig na saging at P20 para ibili ng ginamus

Mungkahi ng integrasyonNevertheless, a determined scientific effort should be exerted to redress the advantage Tagalog has acquired illegally. Adoption of words and phrases from the other dialects should be top priority, and meanwhile, Tagalog should be temporarily moved to the back burner.

Mekanismo para sa integrasyonThe scientific, fair and pedagogical thing to do is to stop the promotion and propagation of Filipino as it is today and to give a chance to other dialects to catch up. It should be withdrawn from the schools and returned only when the process of integration has reached a certain point of stability.

Chopsueyy Sa sinabi ni Pacis, ay malalagay sa alanganin ang

paniniwalang panglingguwistika ng mga iskolar na nagsasabing ang pagpasok ng mga salita, parirala, at idyoma sa isang wika ay sa pamamagitan ng aktuwal na paggamit at hindi sa pamamagitan ng amalgamation. y Amalgamation - to mix or merge so as to make a combination

Katasy Si Reyes ay isang employee sa isang factory. Gabangon

siya nang maaga porque arawi ang gatirahan niya. Isang buen worker si Reyes. Siya y magalang at nagaget. Mataas sa average ang kanyang intelligence. Punctual siya. Pagdating niya sa planta, gatrabajo siya kaagad. Gasunod siya sa kanyang foreman. Ang output niya ay malaki at may high quality. Isang model employee si Reyes.

Ang pagbasa ng Philippine Free Press(October 1, 1988)y Filipino or Pilipino is a linguistic swindle worthy of the

so-called National Language Institute. The new Constitution looks hopefully to its development to something worthy of being called national language as it evolves y In human evolution, it is in the stage of Neanderthal Man. No longer ape, not yet human, Shambling as it walks and low-browed. Like Pilipino or Filipino as a language. Down from the trees and just out of the cave of ignorance.

Jose F. Lacaba (Agosto 20, 1970)y Perhaps the Philippine situation can never be fully understood by someone belonging to the power elite. The Westernization of those who have graduated from the university is almost complete. y The students who have learned English easily are the same ones who have quickly embraced the citizens alienated from their fellow Filipinos because they live in an artificial society, a society built on the principles and objectives imported through the use of English. y It is not surprising that many intellectuals believe that nationalism and the language problem are separate, that it is possible to show concern for the country without supporting Pilipino.

Jose F. Lacaba (Agosto 20, 1970)y Those who say that Pilipino is inadequate to meet the

needs of the modern world are simply unaware that Pilipino has been making great strides in the past 10 years. y Those who say that Pilipino has produced no significant literature are only confessing that they have read nothing of the literature written in Pilipino in the past 10 years.

Jose F. Lacaba (Agosto 20, 1970)y Those who say that Pilipino cannot cope with 20th

century science and technology have not heard Filipino engineers, for instance, talking business in Pilipino: their sentences are in Pilipino but they use English terminology when no terms in the language exist, in the same way that English unashamedly incorporated foreign words, spelling and pronunciation unchanged, into its own vocabulary. y Those who fear that Pilipino will throw us back to the stone age do not know that Pilipino is already advancing into the space age, the age of revolution.

Dekada 90y Mga ugong na narinig ng bansa mula sa media: y Kumontra ang mga Cebuano sa Executive Order 335 ni

Presidente Corazon Aquino y At may sumusuporta na may ginawang paglabag ng Saligang Batas ang Presidente sa paglabas niya ng nasabing Executive Order.

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 335y

August 25, 1988 ENJOINING ALL DEPARTMENTS/ BUREAUS/ OFFICES/ INSTRUMENTALITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE SUCH STEPS AS ARE NECESSARY FOR THE PURPOSE OF USING FILIPINO LANGUAGE IN OFFICIAL TRANSACTIONS, COMMUNICATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE.

Ikalawang pangungusap sa Seksiyon Animy Alinsunod sa mga tadhana ng batas at sang-ayon sa

nararapat na maaaring ipasya ng Kongreso, dapat magsagawa ng mga hakbangin ang pamahalaan (Executive Branch) upang ibunsod at puspusang itaguyod ang paggamit ng Filipino bilang midyum ng opisyal na komunikasyon at bilang wika ng pagtuturo sa sistemang pang-edukasyon.

Ngunit.y Mula noong 1987 hanggang ratipikahin ang

Konstitusyon at hanggang palabasin ni Presidente Aquino ang Executive Order 335, wala pang ginawang hakbang ang Kongreso hinggil sa wika.

Reaksyon sa Executive Order 335y Nagpalabas ng resolusyon ang may 97 kongresista na

humihinging iurong ni Presidente aquino ang Executive Order 335 y Nagharap ang gobyerno ng Cebu ng isang preliminary injunction sa cebu Regional Trial Court para pigilin ang DECS sa pagsunod sa EO335 ni Presidente Aquino.

Kabisigy Sa pagdiriwang ng araw ng kasarinlan ng Pilipinas,

inilunsad ni Presidente Aquino ang Kabisig, ang implementing arm ng mga proyekto ng Malakanyang na umano y ipinapagawa sa mga non-governmental organization.

Adrian Cristobal (PDI, Hulyo 27, 1990)y It is a misconception dearly propagated that Ms.

Corazon Aquino is a weak president, utterly lacking in political will. y The truth is that she is a strong, even stubborn president who is far reluctant in exerting her will on our political society.

Political Willy Sabi ni Cristobal: y For the Constitution grants the presidency the

monopoly of political will they forget that the political will to which the presidency has an exclusive franchise has always been inevitably exercisedy Ano ang kulang para matapos ang kontrobersiya

tungkol sa Filipino, ang wikang pambansa? POLITICAL WILL!

Seksiyon 7y For purposes of communication and instruction, the

official languages of the Philippines are Filipino and, until otherwise provided by law, English. y The regional languages are the auxiliary official languages in the regions and shall serve as auxiliary media of instruction therein. y Spanish and Arabic shall be promoted on a voluntary and optional basis.

Seksiyon 8This Constitution shall be promulgated in Filipino and English and shall be translated into major regional languages, Arabic, and Spanish.

Seksiyon 9y The Congress shall establish a National Language

Commission composed of representatives of various regions and disciplines for the development, propagation, and preservation of Filipino and other languages.

Reaksyon sa Seksiyon 9y JM Zabala (Times Journal, Peb. 19, 1990)

argued that Filipino has yet to evolve, and that Tagalog, which is identified with Filipino, hasn t been accepted by the majority of the population.

Reaksyon sa Seksiyon 9y Prof. Edilberto Alegre:

Tagalog is by default and by fact the national language. It is the lingua franca of the entire archipelago. Call it Filipino/Pilipino then, for that would conquer a national scope on the regional Tagalog language

Ang first hand account ni Alegrey Stranded si Edilberto Alegre at mga kasama nito sa

Iloilo City (pagkagaling sa Roxas City ng dalawang araw) y Narinig nila sa isang vendor sa Roxas City na may coup sa makati, quezon city at manila. Narinig ito ng vendor sa broadcast sa Tagalog na nagmumula sa Metro Manila.

Ang first hand account ni Alegrey Those were glorious days for the national language; it

was truly national in scope. Whatever jaundiced Cebu politicians and fully-minded UP academics may say, this was one instance in which practice proved that theirs is the talk, and somewhere else is the doing.

Ang first hand account ni Alegrey Ang pambobomba ng rockets ng PAF jet sa White

Plains na kuno y kinaroroonan ng mga rebelde ay naririnig nila. y Ito y dahil lahat pala ng Iloilo AM radio stations ay naka-hook up sa DZRH at sa PBS nationwide broadcasts. y All these broadcasts were done mainly in contemporary Manila Tagalog, the basis of Filipino

Ang first hand account ni Alegrey Sa kudetang iyon naobserbahan ni Alegre na

nagkatulungan ang Tagalog at ang mga rehiyonal sa wika.

Ang first hand account ni Alegrey Sa Radyo Bombo na nakasentro sa Visayas at

Mindanao, ang national coverage ay ginawa sa Tagalog. Kaya ang Cebuano, ilonggo, at Ilokano ay nag-uusap sa pamamagitan ng broadcast sa Tagalog. y Kung panlokal ang broadcast at wala na sila sa national hook-up, sa lokal na lengguwahe na nila ginagawa ang broadcast.

Konklusyon ni Alegrey Tagalog from Manila to all the regions of the

Philippines that is Tagalog from the center outwards and between regions. The factual reality is this: Tagalog is the national language of the Philippines. It is in current use, it is effectively utilized, and it is by usage established fact.