Batangas

Batangas, officially known as the province of Batangas is a province in the Philippine located in
the Calabarzon region in Luzon. Its capital is the city of Batangas and is Bordered by the
provinces of cavite and Laguna to the north and Quezon to the least. Across the Verde Island
Passages to the South is the island of Mindoro and to the west lies the south China Sea.
Poetically , Batangas is often referred to by its ancient name Kumintang.

The dialect of Tagalog spoken in the Province closely resembles the old tagalog spoken before
the arrival of the Spanish. Hence, the summer institute of Linguistics called this province the
heartland of the Tagalog language. A strong presence of the tagalog culture is Clearly visible to
the present day.

Linguistically , Batangeunos are also known for their unique affection of often placing the
particles eh or ga (equivalent to the particle ba in Filipino) usually as a marker of stress on
the sentence, at the end of their spoken sentences or speech: for example Ay, oo , nga eh!
(Aye, Yes, inded!. Some even prolong the particle eh into ala eh though it really has no
meaning in itself.)