Sounds
Hiligaynon has sixteen consonants: /p t k b d ɡ m n ŋ s h w l ɾ j/. There are three main vowels: /a/, /ɛ ~ i/, and /o ~ ʊ/. and (both spelled i) are allophones, with in the beginning and middle and sometimes final syllables and in final syllables. The vowels and are also allophones, with always being used when it is the beginning of a syllable, and always used when it ends a syllable. Consonants and were once allophones but cannot interchange as in other Philippine languages: patawaron (to forgive) but not patawadon, and tagadiín (from where) but not tagariín.
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Famous quotes containing the word sounds:
“I used to be angry all the time and I’d sit there weaving my anger. Now I’m not angry. I sit there hearing the sounds outside, the sounds in the room, the sounds of the treadles and heddles—a music of my own making.”
—Bhakti Ziek (b. c. 1946)
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Through the trance of silence,
Quiet breath;
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Only the mightier movement sounds and passes;
Only winds and rivers,
Life and death.”
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