Lesson 3 : Alphabet letters and sound in Lulogooli

Before this lesson, you may please note the picture chart and names below. If you are new to Lulogooli, the words below each picture is a name or activity happening. 

Can you add a word or more to describe some of the clip art images?

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Discussion

In Ileseni 2 we learnt that Ululogooli borrows alphabet letters from Latin script. 

In Ileseni 3, we learn that each letter represents a unique sound. 

A letter in speech is known as “Iduguda”. In plural, “Ziduguda”. Fo example letter “a” is “iduguda.” Letters “a” and “b” are “ziduguda”.

In informal speech the word will be heard as <induguta> and in plural, <zinduguta>. However, the root verb for talk is “dugud.a” that birthes the noun “i.duguda”. 

Each Iduguda has a unique sound. A sound in Lulogooli is “umuoyo”. Plural is “imioyo”.

“Umuoyo” is the equivalent of a phoneme in Linguistics. A phoneme is an indivisible sound unit. 

Every alphabet letter (iduguda) has a phonemic sound (umuoyo) illustated above it [A^a], as in the table below. 

The table also provides English equivalent letter sounds that resemble Lulogooli sounds in speech. 

Exercise

1. Read aloud the words given under each letter. Notice the first bolden sound.
2. In your notebook please write another English word with the same sound as well as another Lulogooli word.