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Batangas Tagalog / Batangueño
Native to: Philippines
Region: Batangas
Language family: Austronesian

is a dialect of the Tagalog language that is spoken primarily in the province of Batangas and in portions of Quezon, Laguna and on the island of Mindoro. It is characterized by a strong accent and a vocabulary and grammar that is closely related to Old Tagalog. It is not customary, in colloquial Batangan, to speak Taglish (or to infuse English terms, like in Manila Tagalog).

The most recognizable difference is the use of the passive imperfect in place of the present progressive tense. In Manila, this is done by inserting the infix -um- after the first syllable and repeating the first syllable. In the Batangan dialect, this form is created by adding the prefix na- to the word:

This conjugation is odd, because it would be the passive past to Manileños. The answer to Nasaan si Pedro? (Where is Pedro?) is Nakain ng isda! (He's eating a fish!). To those unfamiliar with this usage, the statement might mean "He was eaten by a fish!"; however, A Batangas Tagalog user can distinguish between the two apparently-identical forms by determining the stress in the words (nákain is eating and nakáin is eaten).

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batangas_Tagalog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batangas

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