ANGELES CITY — Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin Jr. announced today that Michael Raymon “Mike” Pangilinan will head the Kapampangan Language Office (Sídduan ning Amánung Sísuan), the implementing body of Angeles City’s Kapampangan language ordinance.
The appointment of Pangilinan as the head of Kapampangan Language Office, according to Mayor Lazatin is the city government’s way to promote Kapampangan language, culture, and heritage.
“Malwat ku ne pung balu ing kabiasnan at kebaluan nang Pangilinan keng pamaglingap at pamagmasabal keng kekatamung Amanung Sisuan,” Lazatin said
“Bilang Angeleños, mumuna tamu dapat manyulung king kultura ampong salitang Kapampangan,” Lazatin added.
To recall, Mayor Lazatin in 2021 has written a letter addressed to Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting, asking the Sangguniang Panglunsod to help him in his initiative to enforce Ordinance No. 424 series of 2017, establishing Kapampangan as an official language of Angeles City and institutionalizing its use in all sectors, alongside existing national and official languages.
Mayor Lazatin said, this move aims to preserve, safeguard, revitalize, and promote the use of Kapampangan in the city.
Lazatin also asked help from media entities such as TV, radio, and print outlets, to raise awareness about the Amanung Sisuan, in order to make sure that the next generation of Kapampangans can carry the city’s culture and language.
It can be recalled that the city council here, headed by Vice Mayor Vega-Cabigting, has begun reinforcing the use of Kapampangan, sending out resolutions written in the Amánung Sísuan, or mother tongue.
Kapampangan traffic signages were also installed along the city’s major roads last September 2021.
Mayor Lazatin said the signages put up around the McArthur Hi-way and Fil-Am Friendship Circumferential Road are part of the efforts of the city government to preserve and revitalize Kapampangan language, while also keeping the safety of kabalen motorists and vehicles plying the area.
This was the first-ever in Angeles City, as well as in Pampanga province-wide, pursuant to a City Ordinance establishing Kapampangan as an official language of Angeles City and institutionalizing its use in all sectors, alongside existing national and official languages.
