The Filipino Language

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Vowels

a

like the u in up and cut (in the majority ofEnglish dialects)

e

like the e in end and bed

i

like the i in machine and marine o

like the o in old and sold

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The Consonants

K, P & T

In English we aspirate the letters k, p and,t. That means that we tend to release someair when we pronounce these sounds. Theseletters are not as explosive in Filipino. This

light Filipino sound can be heard in Englishwords where these letters follow an s. Forexample, skate, spare and, stand.


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D, L, N & T

The letters d, l, n, and, t arepronounced in a slightly different

way too. In English we place the tipof the tongue against the back of the

upper front teeth for these sounds

but in Filipino the tip of the tongue isplaced lightly on the edge of the

upper front teeth. Again, it is a

lighter sound than the English

equivalents.


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The Letter R

The Filipino r is very different from the English r.It is sounded by flicking the tip of the tongueagainst the back of the upper front teeth. This rsound can be compared to the double d in

"ladder" but only if the word is not over-enunciated. Some Filipinos, especially in thenorth, really roll their r's by rapidly repeating thisaction in a machine gun fashion. Others roll their

rs from the back of the throat. However, thesevariations are not important to a student andmay even seem like an affectation when soundedby a non-Filipino. Only a single flick of the tongue

is necessary.


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The Letter NG

This is a single letter in the Filipino alphabetand its sound is not at all foreign to the

English speaker. It can be found in wordssuch as sing and hang etc. The difficultyfor non-Filipinos is that the ng sound isoften at the beginning of a word or a

syllable.


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The Accent Marks (Mga Tuldk)

Pahils (Acute)

` Paiw (Grave)

Pakupy (Circumflex)These marks are placed above vowels only andthey do not change the sound of the vowels as

they do in other languages such as French. Theymerely mark which syllables should be stressed orif a vowel should be clipped short with a glottalstop or both. Notice that the name of each tuldk

contains the very accent mark it describes.


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Pahils /

Thepahils is the most common tuldk. It simply

shows which syllable or syllables should beaccented or stressed in a word. (Hils simply meansslanted.)bon (supplies,

allowance)

> ban (buried)

bta (bathrobe) > bat (suffer)bhis (style of

dressing)> bihs (all dressed up)

btas (hole) > buts (punctured)gling (come

from)> galng (skill, luck)

hpon

(afternoon)> Hapn (Japanese)

samantla> samantal take advanta e


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Paiw \

Thepaiw mark is found only at the ends ofwords. It does not mark a stress on that

syllable. Instead, it signifies that the vowelsound should be clipped short in the throat.(Iw means slash as with a knife.)

bata (bathrobe)> bat (child)baga (ember) > bag (lung)

suka (vomit) > suk (vinegar)


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Pakupy ^

Thepakupy mark is a combination ofthepahils and thepaiw marks. Itsignifies a stress on the marked syllable

and a glottal stop on the vowel. (Akupy is a Filipino hat or long ago, ahelmet.)

basa (to read) > bas (wet)Hindi (an Indian

language)> hind (no, not)


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babae lalaki Filipino kahapon

la

l

a

mu

n

a

n

Malumay or Banayad

Malumaywords have no accent marksbut there is a stress on the second last

syllable. This class of word is so

common that most dictionaries do notmark them with apahils tuldk.Examples:


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bat hartangh

al

malab

balit

Malum

Malum words are pronounced the sameway as malumay, with the stress on thesecond last syllable, but they also have

a glottal stop on the final vowel. This ismarked with thepaiw tuldk. Examples:


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is bibg tanngtalag magand

Mabils

Mabils or quick words have a singlestress on the final syllable which is

signified by apahils tuldk. Examples:


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dag big salit salap panibugh

Marags

A marags word is quick like amabils word with the stress on thefinal syllable but it also has a finalglottal stop like a malum word.Examples:


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Maring

Malumay> linlangan lbangan

Maring Malum > maar nakassirMaring Mabils > paraln inank

Maring

Marags> dlit nagbbir

Marin

A marin or stressed word can containthe same stress pattern as any of the

four types mentioned above but with an

extra stressed syllable. Therefore thereare four types ofmarin words.Examples:


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tung-ol (a kind ofbanner) alw-iw (babbling ofwater)

ig-ig (to shake up)bag-ang (molar)

(variant)

Malaw-aw

Malaw-awis a very rare type of pronunciationthat was more common in the days before theSpanish language influenced Filipino speech.It is marked with a hyphen or gitlng instead

of a tuldk. The gitling represents a glottalstop before the vowel of the final syllable.Examples:


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The Word Ng

The first obstacle for a student of Filipino isoften the word "ng". It is roughly theequivalent of the English word "of". It is

pronounced nang but it is always abbreviatedbecause it is used so often in Filipino speechand writing. There is another word which isspelled "nang" and pronounced the same way.

It has several meanings such as a conditional"when" and "in order to" etc. Ng is also a letterin the Filipino alphabet but when it is recited aspart of the alphabet, it is pronounced nga.


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The Word Mga

"Mga" is another very common

Filipino abbreviation which ispronounced mang. It makes nounsplural just like the letter s does in

English and it takes on the meaningof "approximate" when dealing withnumbers.


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Presented by:

Miss Alita Rose V.Bulay

MAT-English

Presented to:Dr. Carmelie Grace

Daquin

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