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    Rizal Literary

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    This document discusses the poem "Sa Aking Mga Kababata" which emphasizes the importance of the native Filipino language. While originally believed to be written by Jose Rizal at age 8, historians now believe another author wrote it. The poem states that a people who embrace their native tongue will pursue liberty, and likens the language to something that gives people identity and freedom. It also quotes Rizal as saying those who do not love their own language are worse than animals. The poem aims to encourage Filipinos to nurture and value their language.

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    This document discusses the poem "Sa Aking Mga Kababata" which emphasizes the importance of the native Filipino language. While originally believed to be written by Jose Rizal at age 8, historians now believe another author wrote it. The poem states that a people who embrace their native tongue will pursue liberty, and likens the language to something that gives people identity and freedom. It also quotes Rizal as saying those who do not love their own language are worse than animals. The poem aims to encourage Filipinos to nurture and value their language.

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    This document discusses the poem "Sa Aking Mga Kababata" which emphasizes the importance of the native Filipino language. While originally believed to be written by Jose Rizal at age 8, historians now believe another author wrote it. The poem states that a people who embrace their native tongue will pursue liberty, and likens the language to something that gives people identity and freedom. It also quotes Rizal as saying those who do not love their own language are worse than animals. The poem aims to encourage Filipinos to nurture and value their language.

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    Rizal Literary

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    This document discusses the poem "Sa Aking Mga Kababata" which emphasizes the importance of the native Filipino language. While originally believed to be written by Jose Rizal at age 8, historians now believe another author wrote it. The poem states that a people who embrace their native tongue will pursue liberty, and likens the language to something that gives people identity and freedom. It also quotes Rizal as saying those who do not love their own language are worse than animals. The poem aims to encourage Filipinos to nurture and value their language.

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    GROUP 1

    Sa Aking Mga Kababata


    Members:
    Amido, Mia Angela
    Barba, Jemlyn
    Pineda, Jero
    Punzalan, Gladys Ann
    Puertollano, Jeremy
    BSIT II-A
    Sa Aking Mga Kababata
    (To My Fellow Youth)
    -Is a poem about the love of one's native
    language written in Tagalog. It is widely
    attributed to the Filipino national hero Jose
    Rizal. He wrote this when he was yet 8 years
    old in the year 1869.
    - Was once believed to have been written by
    Jose Rizal. There is no evidence, however, to
    support authorship by Rizal and several
    historians now believe it to be a hoax.
    - The actual author of the poem is suspected
    to have been the poets Gabriel Beato
    Francisco or Herminigildo Cruz.
    - Jose Rizal emphasized the significance
    and the usage of our mother tongue.
    Mother tongue was the language we
    learned since birth (Which was Filipino).

    - The poem gave us a sense of identity.


    Language could not be only our way to
    communicate but it also served as the
    reflection of the culture.
    Sa Aking Mga Kababata
    Kapagka ang baya’y sadyang umiibig
    Sa langit salitang kaloob ng langit
    Sanlang kalayaan nasa ring masapi Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din sa Latin,
    Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid Sa Ingles, Kastila, at salitang anghel,
    Sapagkat ang Poong maalam tumingin
    Pagka’t ang salita’y isang kahatulan Ang siyang naggagawad, nagbibigay sa
    Sa bayan, sa nayo't mga kaharian atin
    At ang isang tao’y katulad, kabagay
    Ng alin mang likha noong kalayaan. Ang salita nati’y tulad din sa iba
    Na may alfabeto at sariling letra,
    Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita Na kaya nawala’y dinatnan ng sigwa
    Mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda Ang lunday sa lawa noong dakong una.
    Kaya ang marapat pagyamanin kusa
    Na tulad sa inang tunay na nagpala
    According to the first stanza, it means that if
    the nation's people wholeheartedly embrace
    and love their native language, that nation
    will also surely pursue liberty.

    In the second stanza, Language here is


    likened to a people born into freedom. In
    Rizal's time, Filipinos were held in slavery by
    Spain. Rizal, however, believed that if the
    people treasured and loved and used their
    mother tongue, it would become a symbol of
    relative freedom, and of identity.
    In the third stanza, It is here in these lines of
    verse that we find Rizal's famous quote: "He
    who does not love his own language is worse
    than an animal and smelly fish." He further
    adds that Filipinos must work to make the
    language richer, and likens this endeavor to a
    mother feeding her young. The native tongue
    is now compared to a helpless child that must
    be nurtured in order to grow and flourish.
    While in the fourth stanza, The Tagalog
    language is, according to these lines, equal in
    rank to Latin, English, Spanish, and even the
    language of the angels. It is not inferior to any
    other language, nor must it be considered so.
    For it is God who has bestowed upon the
    Filipinos this gift, just as he has blessed the
    other nations and lands with their native
    tongues.
    These last lines may very well be referring to the
    Alibata, or the old Filipino alphabet whose
    characters are unique in every essence, finding
    no likeness in any other alphabet. The Tagalog
    language, according to Rizal, has letters and
    characters of its very own, similar to the way
    other "elite tongues" do. These letters,
    however, were overthrown by strong waves and
    lost, like fragile, fickle boats in the stormy sea,
    many long years ago.

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