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Lesson 34: Rewriting to reintroduce TKK books; the changes in brief

Some of the TKK books now rewritten Rewriting TKK series Lulogooli books has helped to structure words that a reader would miss out or be mixed on pronouns, tenses, intonation and native’s applied accent. An L2, reading Book 2B; “Lidiku lia kiitu” /lidiku Lyechitu/, would easily find the words in a diction search as one good user earlier belaboured English translations of the words using a pencil. Primarily, the rewriting has harmonized the letters “ts, dz and z” to “z”, “r and l” to “l”, noun class “e and i” to “i”, second person object “mo and mu” to “mu”, third person object referred by “o” (ololi) 1 , “u” (uvuuki) 2 and “a” (avee) 3 to “a” and a few more others. From this chart you can identify some changes in title names Secondly, agglutination has been checked. In instances of over separation or over agglutination of morphemes that makes the word not only unnatural but ungrammatical too. From the book, “Ingoko Iagota” /Engoko Yagota/, page 24 paragraph 2 has the sentence: “Ni...
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Lesson 2 ; The Alphabet of Ululogooli

 

Discussion

The word “Lulogooli” has 10 letters. 

These ten written letters (U.l.u.l.o.g.o.o.l.i) are from Latin-script alphabet.

The Latin Alphabet has 26 letters namely a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,I,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z.

Only two Latin-script letters, “q” and “x” are not used in Lulogooli directly. But by borrowing new words from other languages, the letters might be used in the long run. 

In writing, a word can have a few or more alphabet letters combining. For there to be a word, there must be a letter or letters with a meaning.

Sometimes a word can repeat alphabet letters. The word Ululogooli has u*2, l*3, o*3. 

The letters “g” and “i” are only used once in the word. We can therefore see that only 5 alphabet letters have been used, “u,l,o,g & i”. 

Exercise

  1. Write your sir/maiden name in your notebook. Count the written letters and note down. Also count how many alphabet letters. Note the repeated alphabet, if any. 
  2. The word “mamumama” means ‘to sleep flat by the belly.’ Please count the letters and also count how many alphabet letters used.


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