Characteristics of Garhwali Children Folk Songs and Other Country’s Children songs About Learning Alphabets
Author aims at finding the fundamental characteristics of Garhwali children folk song and children songs of various languages for teaching the alphabets.
From language point of view, psychologists found the following characteristics ina two year old child”
1- Enjoys participation in reading
2-Comes to know that language brings desired response
3-Can use fifty to three hundred words or there is increment in vocabulary
4-Most the words, a child use is related to him or her
5- Receptive language is developed more than expressive (can understand more than can express)
6- Starts using negative words
7-Starts using plurals which are simple
8-Speech is 60-70 percent intangible
9- Can verbalize needs
Psychologists found the following major aspects of language in child development (4 years old child):
1-Uses prepositions
2-Uses possessive consistently
3-Answers whose, where ..
4- Produces elaborated sentences
5-Speech is entirely almost intangible
6-Begins to use correctly past tense of verbs
7-Refer to activities, events, objects, people that are not present
8- Starts to change tone of voice and sentences structure for adapting the level of listeners
9-states first and last name, gender, sibling’s name and at times telephone numbers
10-, Answers apprperately in case of tired, cold, hunger etc
11-Recites simple songs, poems
Garhwali (Indian) Children Folk Song teaching Alphabets
In Garhwali language, there are tens of children folk songs aimed to teach alphabets. Dr Nand Kishor Dhoundiyal and Dr Manorama Dhoundiyal collected few songs. However, there are other songs too.
One of many folk song teaching Devnagari alphabet is as :
अ आ इ , इ , उ , ऊ , ए , ऐ
,
माद्यो जान्दन जोगी नगा
कखडि ,गघडि गं
चछ्डि , जझडि यं
टठडि ड़ढडि ण
तथडि दधडि न
पफडि , बभडि म
यरडि लवडि शषडि
सहडि क्ष , त्र ज्ञं
Song in roman script
o ,ou, angh , ah
tathadi, dadhddi n
yardi, lavdi, shashdi
sahdi , ksh, tra , gyn
Sanskrit Shiv Sutrani for teaching Devnagari alphabets
1-. अ इ उ ण् |
2- ऋ ऌ क् |
3-. ए ओ ङ् |
4-. ऐ औ च् |
5. ह य व र ट् |
6-. ल ण् |
7-. ञ म ङ ण न म् |
8-. झ भ ञ् |
9-. घ ढ ध ष् |
10-. ज ब ग ड द श् |
11- ख फ छ ठ थ च ट त व् |
12-. क प य् |
१३- श ष स र् |
१४-. ह ल् |
Three thousand years back Panini or his predate created the varnmala sutra (formula for alphabet) from these 14 verses , 281 pratayaharas could be created
Alphabet des Scoute: A Famous French Alphabets Learning Children Poem
French Pangram or Holo-alphabet sentence
The guardians sing the following pangram sentence in lyric form that the children remember the sentence which has 26 alphabets
‘Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume’
Dutch Language Children Song for Learning Alphabet
English language Children Song for alphabet learning
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The caregiver or guardians sing the sentence in lyric style that children are attracted sentence
German Pangram or Holoalphabet Sentence for Children
The child guardian sings the following german pangram in poetic form to attract children attention
‘ictor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den Sylter Deich’
There is every umlaut in the above sentence
Spanish Alphabet Learning Verse
A bee, ce, de, , e, efe, ge
(Y tenemos cuatro mas)
Che and elle
En double ere
Spanish Pangram or Holoalphabet
The following Spanish pangram has all 27 letters and diacritics
‘El veloz murciélago hindú comía feliz cardillo y kiwi. La cigüeña tocaba el saxofón detrás del palenque de paja.’
The guardian sings the sentence in rhyme form for attracting attention
Thous
It is said that Emperor Wu (sixth century) commissioned ascholar Zua Hing Zi to compose apoem for his prince to practice Calligraphy. The poem has 250 phrases of 4 characters each from ‘j yutping’. The classic also teaches numbers from 1 to 1000.
Javanese Alphabet Pangram Song
Hana caraka
Data sawala
Padha jayanya
Maga bathanga
Japanese Iroha
The poem Iroha was created around 8th to eleven century. The poem is perfetc pangram as it has each character of Japanese syllable at least once.
The l transliteration is as
Characteristics of Children songs aimed to teach alphabets
Studying the above rhymes of various languages aiming to teach alphabets (formally or informally) the following conclusion is out
1- Whether there are folk/traditional songs or is three thousand song, the creator have taken care to know the language grabbing power of child
2- The poems are simple
3- The words are not heavy or complex
4- There also words which do not have meaning but are essential for creating lyrical effects
5- Singing is more important than the words that child starts attachment towards alphabets
6- Whether modern or old songs, the creators have real experience of child learning capability.
7- Less plurals are used in most of the poems
Over all , all the poems are perfect in tackling the grabbing power or language acquisition power of child for language.
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