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Sounds of Language
prepared by:
Ma’am She
Read and enhance your
pronunciation of a few critical
vowel and consonant sounds,
diphthongs, blends and glides
based on the title entitled
Words of Wisdom.
WORDS
Native Wisdom Ancestors
Brief Country Literature
Indigenous Folklore Spanish
It Proverbs Expressions
live rhyme Treasure
PHRASES
brief instructive expression
to learn our indigenous languages
of the native spirit
the wit of one
our elders’ wisdom
lived by simple rules
of folk literature
of Philippine folklore
ancestors’ wisdom
in our country
other oral expressions
Spanish missionaries
struck by proverbs
rhyming words
cultural treasures
CLAUSES
which are brief instructions
how proverbs formed part of the native
spirit
which are referred to by some scholars as
the wisdom of many
because they have the power to teach
people the more essential
truths about life and the complexity of
living
when she spent a lifetime collecting pieces
of folk literature
that are witty expressions
that reveal our ancestors’ wisdom
when she gathered proverbs from
various areas in our country
which is not only witty expressions
as their fellow religious people
learned our indigenous languages
when Spanish missionaries
translated our proverbs
because they have rhyme
SENTENCES
Proverbs are brief instructive expressions
that suggest a specific action, behavior, or
judgment.
Spanish missionaries were found to have
translated such proverbs and other oral
expressions in Spanish in order for their
fellow religious people to learn our
indigenous languages.
She asserted that even the Spaniards who
colonized our country noticed how
proverbs formed part of the native spirit.
Our proverbs are not only witty
expressions. They are also our
cultural treasures.
She spent a lifetime collecting
pieces of folk literature that
reveal our ancestors’ wisdom.
Proverbs are brief instructive
expressions that suggest a
specific action, behavior, or
judgment.
PARAGRAPHS
Damiana L. Eugenio, a
distinguished scholar of Philippine
Folklore compiled and edited what may
very well be considered as the most
comprehensive collection of proverbs in
our country. There is a limited number
of works like this in existence. She spent
a lifetime collecting pieces of folk
literature that reveal our ancestor’s
wisdom.
Our proverbs are not only witty
expressions. They are also cultural
treasures. As we continue to use
them in various spoken or written
forms and as we explore ways of
representing them in graphic,
musical, or dramatic modes, we
facilitate their preservation. And
through these, we strengthen our
identity as a people.
This is Good to Know!
Phonetics is the study of the
sounds of language. These sounds
are called phonemes.
Diphthongs or double vowels,
bite, cow, and boy. Diphthongs
involve off- glide s. You can hear
the y in bite and boy, and w in the
cow.
Semivowels are sounds that
are, as the name implies, very
nearly vowels. In English , we have
w and y, which you can see are a lot
like vowels such as oo and ee, but
with the lips almost touching the
palate for y. They are also called
glides since they normally “glide”
into or our of vowel positions (as in
woo, yeah, ow, and oy).
Consonant Blend is a
sequence of two or three
consonants , each of which is
heard. Example is “sh” and “ch”.