From the gathered folklore of Southern Leyte, this study aims to provide an opportunity to explore and gain knowledge about the lifestyle and leisure of Southern Leyteňos. The research design used in the study is a descriptive exploratory design. It is employed a purposive sampling strategy to collect folklore, in which they toured all of Southern Leyte's municipalities and asked for stories in various barangays. The researchers chose barangays from upland, lowland, and coastal areas in each municipality. A total of 65 narratives have been collected from the 19 municipalities. Findings revealed that Southern Leyteňos lifestyle and leisure includes hunting, pagtutuba, fishing, and farming. Southern Leyteňos spend their spare time sharing stories, balak, dancing, singing, and drinking tuba. Because they were used to playing, young people found riddles to be rather useful. Planting, fishing, and entrepreneurship are all superstitious notions. The bolhon or ajunay (bayanihan system) is regarded as a valuable cultural practice in which it serves as a tool for avoiding difficulties in jobs. The findings of this study should be used and incorporated into teaching children about the culture of the people who live in the neighborhood where their school is located.
This study aimed to find out the morphological variations of the dialects of the selected town of the fifth district of Leyte, Western Leyte. This study utilized a descriptive design wherein the researcher used two kinds of instruments. This study involved 125 respondents who were purposely selected according to age and location. Results revealed that the language of the selected town on the fifth district of Leyte, Western Leyte were composed of the root word, affixes, and repetition. There were 3 morphophonemic changes occurred: phonemic change, the omission of phonemes, and metathesis. It was found out that the following phonemes were freely exchanging vice versa without changing the words meaning such as;
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