Katimauan para king sariling Amanu!
Para king Bulan ning Amanu, yayampang ke ining makuyad kung kauatasan e pemagatan kung MÁNUKLUAN. Para ya ini karing anggang Kapampangan a kayanakan a mengaparusan king iskuela iniang gagamitan de ing sarili rang Amanu king kilub ning silid-aralan.
[For the Language Month, I present this short poem the title of which is SQUATTER. This I dedicate to all the Kapampangan children who got punished at school for speaking their own language inside the classroom.]
Kailangan da nang abalu ring anggang Pilipinu king meto yatu na e kailangan ing paten ta ra ring aliuang amanu keti Pilipinas ban mung mikamasikan a bangsa.
[It's high time that all Filipinos around the world know that we don't have to kill our linguistic diversity in the Philippines just to uphold a strong nation.]
Misasanmetung king pamimialiua!
[Unity in diversity!]
MÁNUKLUAN
[Squatter]
neng Jason Paul Laxamana
Oyta i Ginang Nacionalista
Ngana king ulaga ning salita
“Ang `di ma-al ang sariling wika
Masa-ol pa sa malansang isda”
Ita kanu’ng amanu nang Pepe
Inia mag-Filipinu king bale
Sibuknan, oneng dipan-ning-alti!
E pa rin asalikut ing gege
[There goes Mrs. Nacionalista
She stated regarding the importance of language,
"Ang `di ma-al ang sariling wika
Masa-ol pa sa malansang isda"
That's what Rizal said, she asserted
So we should speak Filipino (Tagalog) at home
I tried, but God-damn-it!
I can't hide my native accent]
Misan a aldo merakap kami
Rugu ning kasiping kung kaklasi
Kákanta keng `Atin Ku Pung Singsing’
`Nia balugbug mi tinakam pitik
Di Bokbok at Ketuy naman gulut
Pepamayaran dong limang pesus
`Tse e la kanu mig-Filipinu
Ing magdusa ing karelang gradu
[One day I was caught
Along with my seatmate
We were singing 'Atin Ku Pung Singsing'
So our ears got some striking
Then Bokbok and Ketoy at the back
Were made to pay five esos
If they wouldn't start speaking Filipino (Tagalog)
Their grades would suffer]
“Painuman na,” ngaku king kakasi
“Mauo ku’t dila ku asne langi”
Kabirabira itang mestra mi
Ing patilya ku kayang penabit
Uling pane kung mángapampangan
“Sa labas ka ng silid-aralan!”
Ala ku kanung lugal king “bayan”
Metung ku mu yatang mánukluan
Kapilan na ku kaya paluban?
["Can I have a drink," I told a friend
"I'm thirsty and my tongue's all dried up"
Suddenly, our teacher
Pulled my hair hard
Because I often used Kapampangan
"Sa labas ka ng silid-aralan!"
She said I have no place in the "bayan"
I'm just a squatter after all
I wonder when she'd let me in]
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