Keeping Pangasinan language alive
‘Malinac Lay Labi’
A CHORAL competition, dubbed as “Project Sanengseng”, featuring the popular Pangasinan folk song Malinac Lay Labi, was launched recently in Dagupan City to help keep the Pangasinan language alive.
“Sanegseng” is the Pangasinan word for sound.
The project’s main proponent is Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese, who noted that only few among the young Pangasinan population still speak the language that he has been trying to learn.
“I found out that most Pangasinenses do not speak Pangasinan language anymore, hence the need to teach them” the archbishop said.
The project is supported by different schools in the city and the city government.
City schools division superintendent Alma Ruby Torio said the project is “another investment to show our love to our school children”.
The archbishop is hopeful that the project will be well accepted and many schools would participate in the competition.
“We pray that this project to teach ‘Malinac Lay Labi’ to our youth will bear fruits of loving Dagupan and of loving Pangasinan,” he said.—(Contributed by VHSarmiento)
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