Lazy Sunday afternoon, 71°F , New York City Even when I was still full from lunch, I couldn’t help but salivate when I saw the...
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NI MANANG KO
Our contributor, Mark Martinez, is a Speech Communications graduate of UP Baguio. On his free time he writes prose and poetry in three languages: English, Tagalog and Ilocano. He is a freelance journalist and currently dabbles in photography. Ubing ak pay lang idi pimmanaw...
Ag-Abroadak Kuma, Asawak
Our Ilocana contributor is a serious blogger, educator, and a graduate of the UP-Diliman’s Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL), a Center of Excellence in Literature and in the English Language in the Philippines. She writes in Tagalog, Ilocano and English. The poem is a...
Idi Nagawidak Diay Pilipinas
Our Ilocana contributor is a serious blogger, educator, and a UP Diliman schooled English major. The poem is about an OFW mother who after working abroad finally returns to her country. She laments about what she saw upon her arrival and realized she may...
Noel Cabangon, soulful and Pinoy
Here’s a great song from an Ilocano popular folk singer in the Philippines, NOEL CABANGON of Rosario, La Union.
Be touched and lulled to sleep. Great sleep companion as we keep our pillows close. *sigh*
ANG TANGI KONG PAG-IBIG
Eavesdropping American Husband
Ilocano wife phone chats with her sister in the Philippines as American Husband listens in the background Ilocano wife: Hay na adiay kua ket madi met nga malmalpas sen. Madik kuma ngarud nga kayat ngem adiay kua da met ket sige met lattan. American...
Siak Ket Ilocano, an Ilocano Poem
SIAK KET ILOCANO Wen Manang, Ilocano ak. Madik nga mai-lemmeng. Uray pay nu kuna da nga estetsayd ak kon. Ket adda met iti nagbaliwan iti kudil kon Siak iti pudno nga pay laeng nga Ilocano.Wen Manang, Ilokano ak. Nu iti rupa siguro, madim nga...
Ilocano 101: Superficial Anatomy
Superficial anatomy or surface anatomy is the study of anatomical landmarks that can be readily seen from the contours or the surface of the body. Ilocano 101: Superficial Anatomy is the study of these parts in its Ilocano term. To complete this list, I...
Counting One to Ten in Ilocano
Have you ever wondered how it would be if Transylvanian Count von Count, or simply The Count of Sesame Street, were Ilocano? AH AH AH AH AH! (Thunder!) Picture him counting Ilocano girls (ba-la-sang). Maysa nga balasang! (May-sa is One.) Duwa nga balasang! (Du-wa is two.) Tallo...
