Abstract: The study entitled Variety of Filipino-Meranaw in Iligan City toward development of a model for analysing variety of language aims to study the variety of Filipino-Meranaw in Iligan City. The specific objectives are: 1) Determine the factors that influence the development of the Filipino-Meranaw variety; 2) Describe the variety in terms of a.) phonology b.) morphology at c.) syntaxis/pragmatics and 3.) Develop a model for analyzing variety of language. Descriptive analysis was used and based on the results of the study: The factors that influenced the existence of the variety are: geographic location, immigration, socio-economic, political, educational characteristics and the language used by the respondents. The Filipino-Meranaw variety was characterized based on (3) aspects. On phonology; words with new pronunciation were compiled; On morphology; the prefixes used in the sentences were: nag and in, mu, ka, han, gina+han, in, pa and hin, pina, um, ma, naka, mag, nag, and ang, mag and han. Gap fillers were frequently used with expression code switching of alternating Filipino and Bisaya words. In syntaxis, the sentence structure is usually simple using one or two clauses with gap fillers. The Maranao prefer to adopt Filipino as a language, but it is also influenced by Bisaya due to communicative needs. The Filipino-Meranaw variety has trace influences from the primary (Filipino) and the secondary language (Bisaya). However, Filipino has the greater influence in the said variety. Meranaw can contribute unique characteristics of its variety as input for the propagation and the intellectualization of the Filipino language.
Keywords: Language Variety, Analysis of Filipino-Meranaw language, Iligan City.
Title: Variety of Filipino-Meranaw in Iligan City: Development of a Model for Analyzing Language Variety
Author: Evangeline Magdaong Jinayon
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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