1. CEBUANO-VISAYAN A PEDAGOGIC GRAMMAR FOR Dr. Angel O. Pesirla,
VPAA, CNU

2. Introduction: the Need for Adequate and Powerful Linear Description of Cebuano-Visayan
Cebuano-Visayan: Required General
Education Academic Component (6 units) for B.A. and B.S. Programs (CMO # 44, S. 1997)
Pedagogic Grammar: Structural Description of a Language for Teaching-Learning Purposes

3. Cebuano-Visayan vis-à-vis Bahasa Malay
(its Mother Tongue)
1. Phonetic: Phoneme-Grapheme
Correspondence
2. Agglutinative: Affixation and
Particle Markers
3. Predicate Construct:
Sentence Pattern

4. II. Phonology-Orthography Correspondence: Sound Letter System
Phonetic Language:
Alphabetic Spelling System
B. Cebuano Visayan Suprasegmentals
● Three-Vowel Phonetic System:
/ i / Ii / a / Aa / u / Uu
● Three-Diphthong Phonetic System:
/ a /+/ u / AW aw / a /+/ i / Ay ay
/ u /+/ i / UY uy

5. ● Glottal Stops:
( - ) and ( ) and (^)
● Fifteen-Consonant Phonetic System:
p t k b d g m n
ng l r s h w y
● Consonant Digraph
MGA mga (MG+A)
C. Teaching Implication

6. III. Morphology: Word System
A. Free Morphemes(Roots)
and Bound Morphemes
(Prefixes and Suffixes)
B. Free Morphemes of Cebuano-Visayan
● Content Words
(Lexical Free Morphemes)
● Function Words
(Grammatical Free Morphemes)

7. E. Teaching Implication
C. Bound Morphemes of
Cebuano-Visayan
● Inflectional Bound Morphemes
(affixes and particles)
● Derivational Bound Morphemes
D. Particles: Detached Bound
Morphemes of Cebuano-Visayan
E. Teaching Implication

8. A. Predicate Constructs
IV. Syntax: Sentence
A. Predicate Constructs
● Noun Predicate (N + N)
● Adjective Predicate (Adj + N)
● Adverb Predicate (Adv + N)
● Prepositional Phrase Predicate (PP + N)
● Intransitive Verb Predicate (Vin + S + Com)
● Transitive Verb Predicate (Vt + Comp + S)
B. Teaching Implication

9. V. Conclusion: the Cebuano-Visayan
Speaking Filipino Deserves to be
Educated in Cebuano-Visayan
The Cebuano-Visayan native speaker should be the LITERATE, EDUCATED, INFORMED Filipino who talks and writes in his / her first language at par with world’s intellectuals without losing his own regional nativeness, national identity, and global dignity.