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Unlike the Ambahan whose length is indefinite, the Tanaga is a seven-syllable quatrain. Poets test their skills at rhyme, meter and metaphor through the Tanaga because is it rhymed and measured, while it exacts skillful use of words to create a puzzle that demands an answer. It was a dying art form, but the Cultural Center of the Philippines ...
Abilitat sa Akong by J.M. Perez. Abrakadabra. Aceron by Virgilio Redondo (author) and Rudy Florese (artist) Ad Infinitum. Ada by Pablo S. Gomez (author) and Louie D. Celerio (artist) Ada: Ang Nuno sa Punso by Pablo S. Gomez (author) and Rico Rival (artist) Adonis Abril. Adonis, Obra Maestra ng Baliw.
Ako'y may alaga. " Ako'y may alaga " ( transl. "I have a pet"; occasionally referred to as " Asong mataba " or " Ang aking alaga ") is a Filipino poem in the Tagalog language of unknown authorship taught in elementary schools across the Philippines, typically in Kindergarten and grade 1. [1] [2] While many different versions exist, most ...
Philippines. Language. Tagalog. Subject (s) Language. " Sa Aking Mga Kabatà " (English: To My Fellow Youth) is a poem about the love of one's native language written in Tagalog. It is widely attributed to the Filipino national hero José Rizal, who supposedly wrote it in 1868 at the age of eight. [ 1] There is not enough evidence, however, to ...
Haiku ( 俳句, listen ⓘ) is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan, and can be traced back from the influence of traditional Chinese poetry. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 phonetic units (called on in Japanese, which are similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; [ 1] that include a kireji ...
Amihan from Encantadia and Etheria. Amulette from Flashpoint. Angel from Biotrog. Angel Ace [10] Angstrom from Flashpoint. Anino [11] from Sandugo. Anitun [12] from Triumph Division and the Diwatas [6] (Philippine goddess of wind, lightning, and rain; Marvel Comics ' Thor & Hercules: Encyclopædia Mythologica [7]) Anti-Bobo Man.
Creatures of the soil. Agta: Another name for kapre. Alan: deformed, winged spirits with fingers and toes that point backwards. Amalanhig: failed aswangs who rise from their graves to kill via neck bite. Amomongo: a man-sized ape with long nails. Anggitay: female beings like centaurs, the opposite of tikbalang.
Aklanon has 21 phonemes. There are 17 consonants: p, t, k, b, d, g, m, n, ng, s, h, l, r, w, y, the glottal stop ʔ, and the voiced velar fricative ɣ.There are six vowels: the three native vowels i, a, and u, which are typical for a Bisayan vowel inventory, the additional e and o for loanwords and common nouns, and a distinct phoneme argued by Zorc (2005) to be a close-mid back unrounded ...