A.M. Borlongan PHILIPPINE languages are not dialects. They are languages. I am an Aklanon. If I speak to my wife Mildred, who is from Pangasinan, in Aklanon, and she speaks back in Ilokano ...

The headline referred to Kapampangan and the other four languages of the Philippines as dialects. Those mentioned in the article are languages, not dialects. A dialect is defined as: (n.) ...