Cebuano Language - Cebuano Grammar, Abakada, Bislish, Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters (Paperback)

Chapters: Cebuano Grammar, Abakada, Bislish, Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cebuano is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20,000,000 people. It is the most widely spoken member of the Visayan languages. Cebuano is given the ISO 639-2 three letter code ceb, but has no ISO 639-1 two-letter code. Cebuano-speaking regions in the Philippines.Cebuano is spoken in Cebu, Bohol, Negros Oriental, western parts of Leyte, some parts of Samar, Negros Occidental, Palawan, Biliran islands, southern region of Masbate island and Mindanao. Some dialects of Cebuano have different names to the language. Ethnic groups from Bohol may refer to Cebuano as Bol-anon while Cebuano speakers in Leyte identify their dialect as Kana. Speakers in Mindanao and Luzon refer to the language simply as Bisaya. If he uses the word "sa" when it should have been "sang" in Hiligaynon or "han" in Waray, most probably he is speaking any of the variants of Cebuano. Cebuano has 21 phonemes. There are sixteen consonants: p, t, k, (the glottal stop), b, d, g, m, n, ng, s, h, w, l, r and y. There are five vowels: i, e, a, o and u. During the pre-colonial and Spanish period, Cebuano had three vowel phonemes:, and . This was later expanded to five vowels with the introduction of Spanish words. The vowels o and u are still mostly allophones, however, with u always being used when it is the beginning of a syllable and o always used when it ends a syllable. But there are some exceptions, like kamatuoran (truth) and hangt d (until). "E" originally appeared only in a few words such as "babaye" (girl/woman), "dayeg" (praise, compliment), "parayeg" (loving), and "pangadye" (prayer) and only in last syllables as "E" was mostly an allophone...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=352307