1/5/2024 0 Comments Rad nah moo ma![]() ![]() ![]() ( mah-sah-YAH koong ah-kah-kee-LAH rah kah) Please Malyáring. Hello Dispû! ( dess-POO' ) How are you? Kómusta ka? ( KAW-mooss-tah kah?) What is your name? Nánung lagyú mu? ( NAH-noong lahg-YOO moo) My name is. OPEN buklat ( boock-LAHT) CLOSED sara ( sah-RAH) ENTRANCE pilúbanan ( pee-LOO-bah-nahn) EXIT pilwalan ( peell-LWAH-lahn) PUSH túlak ( TOO-lahck) PULL ábit ( AH-biht) TOILET kasilyas ( kah-SEELL-yahss) MEN láláki ( LAH-LAH-kee) WOMEN bábái ( BAH-BAH-ee) FORBIDDEN bawal ( BAH-wahll) In most dialects (including standard Kapampangan), /aɪ/ and /aʊ/ are reduced to /ɛ/ and /o/ respectively. There are four main diphthongs: /aɪ/, /oɪ/, /aʊ/, and /iʊ/. Pronunciation guide Vowels /ə/, a close back unrounded vowel when unstressed allophonic with a /aː/, an open front unrounded vowel similar to English "father" when stressed /ɛ/, an open-mid front unrounded vowel similar to English "bed" /i/, a close front unrounded vowel similar to English "machine" /o/, a close-mid back rounded vowel similar to English "forty" /u/, a close back rounded vowel similar to English "flute" Consonants b as in bee k as in key d as in dough g as in gold l as in let m as in me n as in nice ng as in so ng p as in pea r as in raw s as in sea t as in tea w as in weak y as in you Diphthongs Kapampangan is much closer to the indigenous Sambal languages of Zambales than to Tagalog. To the unfamilar, Kapampangan appears to be a divergent dialect of Tagalog, which is natively spoken in the rest of Central Luzon, but the two are distantly related and mutually unintelligible. Kapampangan is the main language spoken in the province of Pampanga and in southern Tarlac, Philippines. ![]()
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