Correction: Dumaguete Quick City Guide

[bluejay03]

I noticed this posted in the Dumaguete Quick City Guide page:

"Majority of the population speak English fluently and can understand a little Spanish. Aside from English and Filipino, Dumagueteños speak Cebuano (Visaya), Tagalog and Ilonggo dialects. Ilonggo is their native tongue."

While all the languages referred to above are spoken in Dumaguete, the wording is not quite accurate. Dumagueteños generally speak Cebuano (Visayan) as their native tongue, not Ilonggo. It is the same with almost all of Negros Oriental except for the border towns or areas like Basay.

[Prime]

an unforgivable error, hahahaha.. from what city guide is this?

[Rhoody]

its from here

but already corrected, thank you for mentioning, bluejay03, sometimes we make mistakes and you guys help us to correct them

cheers

Rhoody

[Malfeis]

Dumaguete people speak Cebuano mainly. But they, or we, speak English too widely.

Very little Spanish, and microscopic Ilonggo!

[TUYOM]

Originally Posted by Malfeis

Dumaguete people speak Cebuano mainly. But they, or we, speak English too widely.

Very little Spanish, and microscopic Ilonggo!

yes we speak cebuano properly, we say wala instead of waa

[jimeve]

Originally Posted by TUYOM

yes we speak cebuano properly, we say wala instead of waa

Same as Tagalog. i think

[bluejay03]

Originally Posted by Rhoody

its from here

but already corrected, thank you for mentioning, bluejay03, sometimes we make mistakes and you guys help us to correct them

cheers

Rhoody

Thanks for the correction Rhoody...

I miss DGT... hope I can be back sooner than Christmas time where I normally visit...

To be precise, we in DGT speak the Dumaguete dialect of the Cebuano (Visayan) language...

[asilmaniac]

absolutely right....dumaguete speaks the real visayan language unlike cebu city;;;
here is the difference betwen the dumaguete dialect and cebu dialect
dumagute speaks just like the way cebuanos in the southern part of cebu speaks

cebu -----dumaguete

waa ------ wala

daa ------ dala

saa ----- - sala