207th sonnet added to Malagilion: Soniton Pangasinan.

sonito 207

News Item: Several protesters died on Tuesday (Nov. 16, 2004) when Philippine security forces broke up a protest by thousands of striking farmers and workers at a sugarcane estate owned by the family of former president Corazon Aquino.

para ed sikaran anakbanua
tan nianak ed boleg da’ra’y burgis
mas mabli ni so tabul na unas
nen say dala’n onterter ed dalin

masamit so linget na timaoan
pepespesen da ed darapilan
balet alay atap na inaoan
piogagep da ya nagamoran

dia’d beneg na magayagan lupam
nagnap kan kalbario O Luisita
ta sinalug da na dala tan lua
so makbul tan mabunan pagew mo

alay pait so pakataoay ko
ed subol na dilo’d saray susum

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Thirty Endangered Languages in the Philippines (PDF)

There are between 100 and 150 languages spoken in the Philippines today. A fourth of these languages—thirty-two—are spoken by different Negrito ethnolinguistic populations scattered throughout the archipelago (Grimes 2000). They are considered to be the aborigines of the Philippines whose ancestors migrated into these islands over 20,000 years ago.

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