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

I.Introduction: the Need for Adequate and Powerful Linear Description of Cebuano-Visayan

C.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

II. Phonology-Orthography Correspondence: Sound Letter System

A.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

● 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

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)

III. Morphology: Word System

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

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

IV. Syntax: Sentence

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.

V. Conclusion: the Cebuano-Visayan Speaking Filipino Deserves to be Educated in Cebuano-Visayan