Dugong Aso: A study of its etymology

Dugong Aso: A study of its etymology

Dugong Aso, the Tagalog derogatory term in reference to the Kapampangan people  can be traced back to ithe traditional practice of using dogs to hunt wild game. Usage of the term probably had its roots around the early 1600s at a time when the Spaniards still considered every inhabitants of the islands as salvages or "wild beasts." The Kapampangans were considered an exception because they were indispensible allies in the protection of the islands against the Dutch, British, Chinese and other nationalities percieved to be a threat to Spanish dominion. One Spanish friar wrote that "three Kapampangans plus one Castillan equals four Castillans" (San Agustin, 1699).

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Sulat Kapampangan

Súlat Kapampángan: The Indigenous Kapampangan Script.

Sulat Kapampangan from 2008 lecture

Súlat Kapampángan, the indigenous Kapampangan script, is an abugida or alphasyllabary, where the consonantal characters possess a default vowel sound that can be altered with use of diacritical marks (Daniels, 1996).

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Luzon Empire (呂宋國)

The Luzon Empire (呂宋國)

Through the centuries, Kapampangan writers, historians and poets all wrote about a "lost Kapampangan empire" that was destroyed by the Spaniards upon their conquest of the islands in the 16th century AD (Henson, 1965). Yet the name "Kapampangan" is hard to come by in any pre-Hispanic sources. This is understandable. The Spaniards carved out the province of "La Pampanga" from the former Luzon Empire (張燮, 1617) in 1571 and named it after the Indung Kapampangan river. Only then were the inhabitants of the new colonial province  called Kapampangans.

Pampanga Bay Satellite Map

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Kapampangan Nationalism

Just Cause for Kapampangan National Liberation

Maniáuad kayung katalarûan? Ing panugálîng Filipíno? Dápûat é yu kamaláyan na ing ánuaran támu kamatayan! Ing pángasintang ning kekatámung panga-Kapampangan! Ing pamagláû ning kekatámung mal a Indûng Tíbûan! Ing pánga-ípus ning kekatámung dáî!

Nánu ing maging támung kalmâ? Maging táung alâng kaladdua? Maging bangsâng alâng katimauán? Métung a bangsâng mapakiápos? Ing eganagana kekatámu maging dinam, pilálûng sálâ't kapintásan dinam.

Ánuaran yu ing pámaging-Filipinu dápûat é kayu dúrukû kng díne nung lilingad da iti kékayu!

Dápûat, dápat samantalánan támu ing diriâ at samâ da kekatámu ring makiupáyâ. Nió alî ra katámu atanggap-tanggap ausan Filipinu dápûat kuanan dakatámu pang ausan dugong aso kng péka-árapan támo? Masanting! Manimúna támu kng pamibúbû ning kekatámung pámagsaríli! ITIKDÓ TÁ YA ING ASIÁS NING BANGSÂNG KAPAMPÁNGAN!

Alâ lang babié kapanáyan? Lakuas masanting! Manálig támu kng kekatámung saríli at kng saríli támung kaguiûan...Liuás kng panagimpân támung maging támu mûng dimút a lalauígan, PANAGIMPÂN TÁMUNG MAGING TÁMUNG MÉTUNG A BANGSÂ! Palabúngan tá ya ing timáuâ at é maka-alípan a kaisípan!

Ing pamanupáyâ é ya pané káyapan. Mipnû ya iting karauákan nung iyá na ing máging sangkan ning pángayalípan! Alâng manalípan nung alâng payalípan!

LUID YA ING KATIMAUÁN NING BANGSÂNG KAPAMPÁNGAN!

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"You ask for parity of rights, the Filipino way of life, and you do not realize that what you are asking for is death, the destruction of your national identity, the disappearance of your homeland, the ratification of tyranny. What is to become of you? A people without a soul, a nation without freedom; everything in you will be borrowed, even your very defects. You ask for Philippinization and do not blush for shame when it is denied you...What you do is take advantage of the prejudices of our rulers. So they refuse to integrate you to the Filipino 'nation' and call you dugong aso to your faces. So much the better! Take the lead in forming your own individuality, TRY TO LAY THE FOUNDATIONS OF A KAPAMPAÑGAN NATION. They give you no hopes. All the better! Hope only in yourselves and in your own efforts...Instead of aspiring to be a mere province, ASPIRE TO BE A NATION; develop an independent, not a colonial, mentality...Resignation is not always a virtue; it is a crime when it encourages oppression. There are no tyrants where there are no slaves."


siuala ding meangubie
Amun ning Kapampangan a Simoun qng Kapampangan a Basilio
meangu qng El Filibusterismo nang Jose Rizal


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