VOWELS
Reading edition
The Bisayan people, especially in Leyte, always have a tendency to separate the vowels in pronouncing the words, there being no Bisayan dipthong. So it is bi-ol (small basket) and not biol; cá-on (eat), ti-il (foot), ma-opay (good), and not cáon, tiil, maopay. But this refers only to spoken language, not to written.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · See the note on the first page of this book. This is one of the facts that urge the adoption of a more logical alphabet (?) for the Bisayan Note 2 · Some words, like uásay (axe), sabáo (broth) are pronounced ua-say, sa-bao, and not u-a-say, sa-ba-o. These syllables ua and ao are not dipthNote 3 · Every vowel1 with the consonant or consonants pronounced with it and every vowel pronounced alone form one syllable, and are written as such