NATIVE LANGUAGE

K A P A M P A N G A N

The word Kapampangan is derived from the root word pampang which means river bank.Very little is known about the language prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century.In the 18th century, two books were written by Fr. Diego Bergaño. He authored Vocabulario de la lengua Pampanga and Arte de la lengua Pampanga.Two 19th-century Kapampangan writers are hailed as being the equivalent of William Shakespeare in Kapampangan literature. Father Anselmo Fajardo was noted for his work ...

Kapampangan is primarily spoken in the provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac. It also spoken in the provinces of Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, and Bataan.The Philippine Census of 2000 states that 2,312,870 out of 76,332,470 people speak Kapampangan as a native language...

Standard Kapampangan has 21 phonemes: 15 consonants and five vowels. Some western dialects of Kapampangan have six vowels. Syllable structure is relatively simple. Each syllable contains at least a consonant and a vowel.

K U L I T A N

Súlat Kapampángan, also known as Culit, Kulitan and Pamagkulit is an indigenous writing system of the Kapampangan people, Sulat Kapampangan is an abugida or alphasyllabary, where the consonantal characters possess a inherent vowel sound that can be change with use of diacritical marks, Sulat Kapampangan can be written left to right and below to down note that Sulat Kapampangan has rules on each direction, above image is a chart for vertical writing.

   

V E R T I C A L

The first line of the song  Atin Ku Pûng Singsing written vertically. 

                                                
H O R I Z O N T A L

The first line of the Kapampangan song Atin Ku Pûng Singsing written horizontally, left to right.