NAME: GENEROSO, RB MAE R
BSED II ENGLISH
ACTIVITY/APPLICATION/LET’s DO THIS
Task 1
Directions: Give your takeaways in paragraph form on each key term presented in the lesson. Each paragraph may
have 3 to 5 sentences. Use the table below.
Key Term Takeaway
1. Multilingualism IT IS THE ABILITY OF THE PERSON TO SPEAK MORE
THAN 1 LANGUAGE. THE SPEAKER CAN COMMUNICATE
FLUENTLY WITH OTHERS. AND IT IS TYPICALLY
THOUGHT TO IMPLY THE ABILITY TO INTERACT IN
LANGUAGES OF OTHER THAN ONE'S NATIVE TONGUE.
2. Polygots POLYGLOTS WERE ALSO KNOWN AS MULTILINGUAL.
BUT THEY CAN SPEAK A LANGUAGE OF MORE THAN 3.
AND A PERSON WHO CAN SPEAK MORE THAN 3
LANGUAGES ARE KNOWN TO BE POLYGLOT
3. Linguists LINGUIST IS A PERSON LEARNING DIFFERENT KINDS OF
LANGUAGE. THEY CAN’T SPEAK IT FLUENTLY BUT
THEY KIND UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE. AND STUDY
THE LANGUAGE AND THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE
LANGUAGE USE.
4. Endangered Language IS A LANGUAGE THAT IS ON THE DANGER OF
BECOMING EXTINCT AS ITS SPEAKERS DIE OUT OR
ADAPT TO OTHER LANGUAGES. WHEN A LANGUAGE
LOSES ITS NATIVE SPEAKERS IT IS SAID TO BE LOST. IT
HAPPENS WHEN FEWER AND FEWER PEOPLE SPEAK IT.
5. Dialectal variation A DIALECTAL VARIATION IS CHARACTERIZED BY
DIFFERENCES IN GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY, AS
WELL AS DIFFERENCES IN SOUND. AND CHANGES THE
LANGUAGE DUE TO VARIOUS INFLUENCES.
Task 2.
Directions: Identify 5 endangered languages in the Philippines with its historical background and reason of dying
out. Use the space provided below.
AYTA, TAYABAS
IS IN CALABARZON REGION AND AN EXTINCT AETA LANGUAGE. THE TAYABAS
AYTAS ONCE LIVED IN TAYABAS, QUEZON PROVINCE. THEY ARE THOUGHT TO BE
THE EARLIEST INHABITANTS OF THE PHILIPPINES, HAVING LANDED ON THE
ARCHIPELAGO MORE THAN 30,000 THOUSAND YEARS AGO. THE NEGRITOS SHARE
SOME PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS WITH AFRICAN PYGMY POPULATIONS.
NOWADAYS, THE AYTAS RARELY WEAR TRADITIONAL CLOTHING, SUCH AS THE
BAHAG FOR MEN AND WRAPAROUND SKIRTS FOR WOMEN; INSTEAD, THEY DRESS IN
URBAN ATTIRE. AYTA WOMEN CAN WEAVE, PLAIT, AND MAKE HOUSEHOLD
CONTAINERS, RATTAN HAMMOCKS, AND OTHER ITEMS.
LANGUAGES CAN ALSO DISAPPEAR QUICKLY IF IT’S SPEAKERS DIE, AND IT IS NOT
BEING PRACTICED ANYMORE.
AGTA VILLAVICIOSA
NAME: GENEROSO, RB MAE R
BSED II ENGLISH
IS AN EXTINCT AETA LANGUAGE OF ABRA PROVINCE. THE VILLAVICIOSA AGTAS
ORIGINALLY LIVED IN VILLAVICIOSA WESTERN ABRA (CAR), ON THE BOUNDARY
WITH ILOCOS SUR. THE VILLAVICIOSA AGTAS ARE ONE OF TWO NEGRITO
ETHNOLINGUISTIC COMMUNITIES THAT WENT EXTINCT IN THE LAST CENTURY.
DECAMAY AGTA
IS AN EXTINCT AETA LANGUAGE OF THE NORTHERN PHILIPPINES. THE DICAMAY
AGTA RESIDED ALONG THE DICAMAY RIVER ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE SIERRA
MADRE NEAR JONES ISABELA • LIKE ITS PEOPLE, THEIR LANGUAGES/DIALECTS,
BECAME EXTINCT.
NEGRITO LANGUAGES
BECAUSE THEIR POPULATION IS SHRINKING, THEIR LANGUAGE IS BECOMING
ENDANGERED. THERE ARE 32 DIFFERENT NEGRITO LANGUAGES, 16 OF WHICH LIVE
IN THE SIERRA MADRE MOUNTAIN RANGE, WHICH RUNS NORTH AND SOUTH ACROSS
THE ENTIRE EASTERN SIDE OF LUZON ISLAND. EACH GROUP SPEAKS ITS OWN
AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE, WHICH THEY CALL AGTA.
IWAAK LANGUAGE
IWAAK IS A SOUTH-CENTRAL CORDILLERAN LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY OVER 3,300
PEOPLE IN THE PHILIPPINES' CORDILLERA CENTRAL MOUNTAIN AREA.
THEIR LANGUAGE HAS BECOME EXTINCT BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE NO LONGER
SPEAK IT.
