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This article deals with current phonology and phonetics and with historical developments of the phonology of the Tagalog language, including variants. Tagalog has allophones , so it is important here to distinguish phonemes (written in slashes / /) and corresponding allophones (written in brackets [ ]).
- Minimal Pairs
- Primary and Secondary Stress
- Syllable Structure and Assonance
- Conclusion
I mentioned the word phonemes, a language’s speech sounds. But what, exactly, is a phoneme? There’s substance to this question. For example, when do you say two consonants are different? Consider the p sound in the beginning of “pill” and the middle of “spill”. If you’re a native English speaker, and hold your fingertips near your lips and say the ...
We now move onto stress, something that makes a syllable more emphasized. Changing the stress in a word can be a form of wordplay, as in TV Tropes’s AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle, but here we’ll look at how stress distinguishes otherwise identical words or phrases. In English, the words incite and insight differ only in where the stress is. I’m no...
Another thing that makes languages sound different, apart from having different consonants and vowels, is how those come together to form syllables. If you listen to Hindi sapat ang sampung libong kilometro, you might hear what I mean. In my mind Tagalog sounds “rounder” than English, and I think this comes from how Tagalog has a lower ratio of con...
All the phonology’s real, but I wouldn’t take any of the analysis too seriously. Here’s a Spotify playlist: Go study linguistics, kids!
• Tagalog has a simple phonological system with CVC as the maximal syllable structure for native words. • Loanwords are well-integrated into the lexicon and are treated as native words, evidenced by affixing behaviors. These allow for more complex syllables. • Tagalog is primarily prefixing. There are 2 infixes and 2 suffixes.
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Tagalog has five vowels, and four diphthongs. [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] Tagalog originally had three vowel phonemes: /a/, /i/, and /u/. Tagalog is now considered to have five vowel phonemes following the introduction of two marginal phonemes from Spanish, /o/ and /e/.
- 28 million (2022), 82 million total speakers (2022)
Tagalog Phonology 33 / s/ is a voiceless spirant, with friction created between the teeth, as in the word [sd:bi :] said. Before /y/, this norm has a palatalized variant [I] before [i,y], as in [9ya:] he, she, it. /h/ is a voiceless, glottal spirant with slight friction, as in the word [h':ti9J] divide. This phoneme does not occur in final ...
BOLLAS 4 f2.0 Phonology of the Philippine languages Tagalog, Cebuano and Itawis 2.1 Tagalog (Tagalog-Bulacan [Obando]) 2.1.1 Introduction The Tagalog language is a very wide-encompassing language in Central Luzon. Tagalog is also where Filipino is first based on.
In this chapter, a phonological sketch of Tagalog is presented and an analysis of four phonological and prosodic phenomena is argued for in support of a particular view of how word and phrasal constituents are parsed prosodically.
