Tagalog 101

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Tagalog 101

• Slides developed by
• Ronald Reboja

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Mga Diin Patnubay sa Pagbigkas at
Pagpapakahulugan(Accents as Guides to
Pronunciation)

• There are three accents or stresses in Filipino.
• Acute accent
• Grave accent
• Circumflex accent

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Acute Accent

• The acute accent ( ) over the vowel sounds
  /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/ tells which syllable
  or syllables are stressed.
• ba-lon (well)
• pa-pel (paper)
• ma-di-lim (dark)
• sing-sing (ring)

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Acute Accent

• The acute accent is not used if the stress falls
  on the second to the last syllable or the
  penultimate syllable.
• la-ra-wan (picture)
• kur-ba-ta (necktie)
• ba-su-ra (garbage)
• si-lid (room)

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Acute Accent

• If the word consists of more than two syllables,
  the acute accent is used to indicate the
  syllables being stressed.
• bib-li-ya (bible)
• ki-sa-me (ceiling)
• ka-lu-lu-wa (soul)
• Mi-yer-ku-les (Wednesday)

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Grave Accent

• The grave accent ( ) is place over the end
  vowel that has a glottal stop sound. It does not
  indicate stress but just the glottal sound.
• lu-pa (soil)
• ta-li (string)
• la-gi (always)
• ma-ha-ba (long)

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Grave Accent

• The glottal sound is lost when the ligature ng
  is joined to a word that has a glottal end vowel.
• lu-pang ba-sa (wet ground)
• ta-ling maig-si (short string)
• la-ging ma-sa-ya (always happy)
• ma-ha-bang da-an (long road)

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Circumflex accent

• The circumflex accent () is used over the end
  vowel with a glottal stop sound and when the
  final syllable is stressed.
• la-ro (game)
• du-go (blood)
• ma-li (wrong)
• pa-la-ka (frog)

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Accents as Signals of Meaning

• The use of accent is very important not only as a
  guide to pronunciation but also to the correct
  understanding of the meaning of the words.

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Accents as Signals of Meaning

• Some words change in meaning when the accent is
  change.
• Pu-no (tree) pu-no (full)
• Ta-la (star) ta-la (notes)
• Ba-ba (chin) ba-ba (down)
• Pa-so (burns) pa-so (flower pot)
• Sa-wa (python) sa-wa (fed up)

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Same pronunciation but have different meanings

• There are words that have the same pronunciation
  but have different meanings.
• ta-sa (cup, assessment)
• da-an (road, hundred)
• ki-ta (visible, wage)
• ta-lon (jump, waterfall)
• sa-la (living room, guilt)