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ลกั ษณะท่วั ไปของภาษา 1-19

Pig Latin is the most common language game of English.
Children teach it to one another by some such instructions as: “Take the
first sound of each word and put it at the end, and then add a [e]”...
One of the most fascinating language games is used by the
Walbiri, who are natives of central Australia. The adults use a secret
language that may be described as “upside-down talk.” Unlike games
such as Pig Latin which distort the phonology,2 upside-down talk distorts 2. ระบบเสยี ง
meaning. In this language all nouns, verbs, pronouns, and adjectives are (sound
replaced by their 3semantic opposites.3 The phonology and syntax remain system)
3. คำ� ทม่ี ี
otherwise unaffected. The sentence These things are small means That ความหมาย
one is big; Another is standing on the sky would mean I am sitting on ตรงข้าม
the ground; and They are just beginning means We have come to the
end.

A. ใหน้ กั ศึกษาจับค่คู �ำใน Column A กับความหมายใน Column B โดยเติมตวั อักษร
หนา้ ค�ำใน Column B ลงในทว่ี ่างหนา้ คำ� ใน Column A

Column A Column B
1. distort a. changed
2. semantic b. sound system
3. transformed c. speech that cannot be understood
4. gibberish d. original inhabitants of a place
5. regular e. put in the place of another
6. revealed f. twist out of shape
7. natives g. relating to meaning
8. replaced h. those who know the secret
i. usual, normal
j. shown