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.