Note 2 — II. Authorities on Philippine Dialects.

Of the Tagal dialect,—a form of speech so hard to acquire with nicety that, according to a Spanish saying, one needs therefor “un año de arte y dos de bahaque,”2 that is to say, unless I am wrong in my interpretation of the last word—“bahaque” which likely is Aeta, the scholar needs “a year of study and two of practice.”