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Tiyong Andy

    Tiyong Andy,
    Kumusta ya tedi, di yema yo kung tedi tiyung kasi mas biyeho tedi kung mingu. Mi nobri es Willie Del Rosario, mi tay(Valentin del rosario), mi Nay ( Soledad Giray) di Sapang. Ya gradua yo highschool na Ternate Western Cavite Institute (TWCI) Cuandu ya gradua yo kolehiyu ya ensina yo na eskuwela di tedi (Sto Nino Academy) cuando 1987-88. mam Linda ya manda kung mingu insinya, dati eli mi mestra cuando highschool. Ya kambiya yo kung Willie Soberano cuandu ya imbisti eli na vice Mayor di bahra.
    Saludu yo kung tedi dahil karu tedi kung di motro pueblo. Sana muchu kamo tedi para no keda nuway kel kasaysayan di motru pueblu. Ta inda yo na LA para se bisita kung kel mga mi parienti, alegri aya muchu di bahra saka tieni rin samahan di bahra kaya lang lotru lotru ta huga pelya. Siya nga pala aki yo ta keda na Sacramento. Tres motru aki (Rey iho di tiyong Bayani na parabahu Y Teressa Eslabon).
    Hanggang aki ya lang tiyong, kumusta ya lang kung tedis todo.
    Willie, Sacramento (15/enero/2003)


Hello fron South Carolina, Andy

    Andy,
    I found your Ternate website and it's very interesting especially the dialect. Anyway, my wife is from San Juan, Ternate, and her maiden is Morales. We were there in 1999. Thanks and More Power to you.
Frank Bautista, (10/Octubre/2002)


Caviteño de Ternate

    Kumusta kung tedis todu.
    Mi nombri Andy Rotairo Huerto, ya se pari kung minggo na pueble di Barra (Ternate). Mi padre Isabelo Bustamante Huerto, ya se pari kung eli na Indang, Cavite. maestro aya na elemtarya di barra. pero mi padre ya muri ya cuandu 1967. Mi madri Sivilla Mojica Huerto, ya se pari kung eli na Alfonso,Cavite. Tieni yo dos ermano, ay nombri Rey pati Efren. Tiene din yo dos ermana, Erlinda i Emer.
    Ya krese yo na barra, aya ding yo ya entra, ya kaba yo elementarya pati segundarya. Kuandu 1969 hanggang 1972 ya keda yo pulis. Kunadu ya sali ya yo na pulis ya trabaha ya lang yo na eskuela di mihutro. Kuando ta trabaha yo na eskuela di Akademya de Sto Nino, ta espera ya lang yo yema kung minggo na embahada de Amerikano para na mi Visa. Kasi ta saka kung minggo mi madri.
    Kuandu ya enda yo aki na Amerika ya entra yo na US Navy, pero no yo ya tarda. Ya trabaha ya lang yo na kumpanya di elektroniko. Sabrusu pala trabaha aki na Amerika, kasi ay sen grandi ay kambyu na Pilipinas. Kaya pag ta se yo bakasyon bung alegri yo porke mas grandi ay kambyu, mas muchu yo ta se pamili. Pag ta enda yo na tienda, muchu yo merka. Muchu parientes ta proba kung minggo dahil palagi yo ya dali kung lutru sen.
    No ya tarda ya kasa yo kung mi mujer Mayette Mercado, di Pampanga. Kuandu ya kasa motru ta trabaha eli na Philiippine Geothermal pero ya habla yo kung eli, sali ya na trabahu de eli na Philippine Geothermal. Aya ya lang eli trabaha na escuela de motru na Barra (Ternate). Ya konsede tameng eli, ya keda mi mujer na kasa di mi lolu. Siguru tieni mga tres anyu eli na Barra bagu eli ya sigi aki kung minggo na America. Ahora, tiene motru una iha, ay nombri Annemarie Mercado Huerto, kinse anyos ya eli, ta entra eli na Torrance High School.
    Hanggang aki ya lang duma, mucho salamat kung tedis todu.
    Andy Rotairo Huerto, (9/Octubre/2001)
    The letter above is written in Ternate Chavacano.
    There is no existing book to verify all the word I said here. In Ternate, we write the word as it sound in tagalog then if the word is not available in tagalog then we use tagalog and english.
    Again there is no existing literature that written in Ternate Chavacano that I know.
    That the reason why I'm trying to put together a dictionary which I'm using the microsoft work.
    Thank You


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