Residents attend Kapampangan book launch

August 24 - President Daphne Villanueva led a delegation of Aguman residents in attending the launch of two volumes of books on Kapampangan vocabulary and grammar. The books were a complete translation of Fray Diego Bergaño's Arte de la Lengua Pampanga” and “Vocabulario de Pampango” by two Catholic priests in Pampanga, Edilberto Santos and Venancio Samson. Together with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts which is co-publishing the books, the Holy Angel University's Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies held the book launch at the San Agustin Church in Intramuros.

"Bergaño’s books can reinvigorate the Kapampangan language by supplying it with thousands of rediscovered words, which is why I consider the translation of these books a real breakthrough in Kapampangan studies,” said Robby Tantingco, executive director of JDNCKS.

The residents in attendance were:
Daphne Villanueva
Frida Galban
Gboi De Padua
Aries Viray
Rex Roque
Rex Dizon
Denesse Handumon
Ruth Henson
Portia Quindo
Acey Duarte

For more information about the books, see this PDI online article on the books:
Lost and found: Kapampangan words