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Kinaray-a writing contest

Published by Ellen on June 13, 2019

For those who have roots in Antique or those from the Visayas who can write in Kinaray-a, this should be of interest to you.

Dungug Kinaray-a Inc. is now accepting entries for this year’s Padya Dungug Kinaray-a.

Kinaray-a is the language spoken mostly in West Visayas. It is the language in the province of Antique.

Dungug Kinaray-a Inc. is a non-profit organization composed of Kinaray-a writers, scholars, and advocates ( I am a member) for the preservation and promotion of the Kinaray-a language and literature.

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Dungug Kinaray-a

Published by Ellen on January 9, 2018
San Jose Mayor Elmer Untaran congratulates Julbert R. Paloma, first prize winner in Short Story category and second prize winner for Poetry as Ritchie Pagunsan (left), one of the primemovers of Dungug Kinaray-a and Fr. Danny Tabuyan (behind the podium), chair of 2017 Kinaray-a writing contest, look on.

Whenever I tell people that I’m from Antique, the next question I usually get is “Where is that?”

I have developed a standard answer to that: It’s in Western Visayas, one of the four provinces that comprise the island of Panay : Aklan, Antique, Capiz Iloilo.

I do that in order that I would be spared the next question which usually is, “Is that, in Aklan? Or In Iloilo?”

Then I get asked, what’s the dialect there, Ilonggo? I say, Kinaray-a.

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