Language And Dialect In English

Language and Dialect “Language” tends to be associated with a standard language which is almost always written, and is almost associated with the speech of a wealthy, educated social class. On her study on Inuit dialects, Tulloch (2005) says that languages are constantly changing, and many of today’s “languages” were once intercomprehensible dialects. Nonetheless, historical connections are also applied to argue the unification of dialects into a single language. According to Malone (2016), she defined dialect as a variety of language used by people from a particular geographic area. Grammatical variation is much more common as a marker of social dialects and formal/informal styles than it is of regional dialects (Rickford, 2002). The line between language and dialect is determined as much by social, cultural and political factors as it is by purely linguistic factors. In fact, dialects consists continuously so, it becomes difficult even to objectively establish where a “language” begins and ends (Tulloch, 2005).

Ibanag, Itawes and Ilocano and Malaueg are the major dialects of Cagayan. Migration made Ilocano the dominant language spoken in the province, composing 67.3% of the total population. Itawes comprises 13.5%, Ybanag 15.3%, and Malaueg 1.7%. Other ethnic groups that migrated speak their own dialects. A person in places where literacy is high speaks and understands English or Filipino (Suyu, 2015). Malaueg is a language that is a descendant of the original