What Language Do You Use When Making Love?
Date Posted: July 22,2009 07:02 PM

nichole and jimi

Kapampangan speakers admit that they find their native language a turn-off during love making and prefer to use the dominant language, Tagalog. This helps them identify themselves with their Tagalog-speaking celebrity idols who star in their favourite romantic movies.

Language experts agree that this is a bad sign as far as the endangerment of the Kapampangan language is concerned. However, since there are no studies made on what language couples prefer to use during sex, the number of native Kapampangan speakers who prefer to use other languages rather than their own during sex is still very much undetermined.

For further details on the current nature of endangerment on the Kapampangan language, see:

Pangilinan, Michael R.M. (2009). Kapampangan lexical borrowing from Tagalog: endangerment rather than enrichment. A paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, June 21 - 25, 2009, Aussois, France.

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