Pangalatok: mixture of Persian and Turkish languages?

I discussed recently about my disbelief of the location of Tawalisi in Pangasinan. And if Tawalisi was in some other places, then Princess Urduja's story could never be traced back here.

Our province had already accepted the arguments of Dr. Jose Rizal. On the other hand, I want to point out something on the account document of the travels of Ibn Battuta assuming that Princess Urduja was a history and not a myth.

It was mentionend, "...whilst the Lady of Tawalisi herself is made to speak not only to the traveller but to her own servants a mixture of Turkish and Persian..."

This princess spoke a mixture of Turkish and Persian. If the account of Princess Urduja is history, it makes us to wonder what happened to those languages. Had they not imparted the languages to the next generations, whereas, the princess existed in the 14th century?

Though, I for one do not understand any Turkish and Persian words, it is fascinating to think that none of the Pangasinense speaks any of those langauges today.

Something came into my mind when I was pondering about this mixture of Turkish and Persian languages. Could the mixture of Turkish and Persian languages be the dialect that we called now "Pangalatok"?

Has anybody of us heard any Turkish and Persian languages abroad and compared it to "Pangalatok"? And if these languages have similarities with "Pangalatok", we can truly claim the history of Princess Urduja and Tawalisi in Pangasinan without doubt.

Pangalatok a derogatory word?

Some of our fellow Pangasinenses are discussing in the web about the eradication of the word "pangalatok" as refering to the people . According to them it is a slang word that is demeaning and derogatory. They claimed that "pangalatok" means "Pangasinense sira tuktok". They are instigating us to join them and completely remove the wrong usage of the word in any conversation.

What's the big deal? My friends called me "pangalatok" because I speak the language. They don't even know the "... tuktok" as some claimed to be. In the eyes of the people outside our province, most of them know nothing about "...sira tuktok" but of the language spoken by us.

Here's a conversation in a chatroom

Jill: Where are you from?
Jack: Pangasinan
Jill: Pangalatok ka?
Jack: No, Ilocano ako
Jill: I thought all of you in Pangasinan speak Pangalatok.

The common knowledge of the people outside Pangasinan is that "Pangalatok" is a language. Jill thought that Pangasinenses speak only one language. They might often used "Pangalatok" as to the people but without derision or malice.

Which came first? I don't have any historical sources on the origin of the the word "pangalatok". But it is common sense to say that "pangalatok the language" existed first before somebody gives the meaning "pangalatok as ... tuktok". That means pangalatok is not coined from "Pangasinense sira toktok". With these statements, Pangalatok that refers to the people is neither offensive nor insulting nor derogatory at all though it is misused by many.

It is wiseful to tell that "... tuktok" is not the meaning of Pangalatok.What if we change it to "Pangasinenses magaganda buhok"?