Are you from Tuguegarao? Great! Here are 20 of trivia you probably didn’t know about:
20. San Gabriel was formerly a vast rice and corn area where Ugac Norte, Cataggaman, Pallua, Vuntun and Bagay residents gather saluyot, Kangkong, native cat fish, dalag and edible frogs, for free, depending on the season. TNF
Engelberto Guzman Gammad
December 15, 2016 at 12:33 AM
Thanks to Benjie de Yro for correcting the criticism that the Ybanags pronounce the word Buntun with a V. Only the ignorants say that. Benjie is right. Buntun was originally Vuntun. The reason why it is now prounounced Buntun (with the B) is due to the inability of the migrants (the Ilocanos and others) to pronounce the word with a V. In the whole Philippines, only the Ybanags (including the Ytawes) have the complete alphabets from A to Z. Examples: mazzigu (to take a bath); mazzigariga (referring to a suffering); bavi (pig); afafuk (drizzle); inafi (rice); mevulun (to join). This means that any Ybanag or Ytawis can pronounce these letters without any difficulty. The Tagalogs, for instance, cannot prounounce Filipinas (with an F). Instead they say Pilipinas. In the Tagalog and other Philippine languages (N.B., languages, not dialects), the letters F and V do not exist as far as pronunciation is concerned. Only in the Ybanag language that you find this peculiarity.