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... past of the Ibaloi Igorot . If the present memoir proves of interest I am sure this will be due to a great extent to the part taken in its completion by the excellent . collaborators above mentioned . Complements like the pictures , the ...
... past of the Ibaloi Igorot . If the present memoir proves of interest I am sure this will be due to a great extent to the part taken in its completion by the excellent . collaborators above mentioned . Complements like the pictures , the ...
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... past of the civilized lowlanders . Spanish authors have been inclined to see an indication of Chinese influence in the frequent occurrence in the Nabaloi dialect of the Spanish ch ; this is indeed uncommon in the other Philippine ...
... past of the civilized lowlanders . Spanish authors have been inclined to see an indication of Chinese influence in the frequent occurrence in the Nabaloi dialect of the Spanish ch ; this is indeed uncommon in the other Philippine ...
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... past tense of verbal forms . Stem : Tag - in , cold ; antag - in , to become cold ; t - im - ag - in , to have become cold . In this case the n of infix in becomes m for reasons of idiomatic pronunciation . Suffix an denotes locality ...
... past tense of verbal forms . Stem : Tag - in , cold ; antag - in , to become cold ; t - im - ag - in , to have become cold . In this case the n of infix in becomes m for reasons of idiomatic pronunciation . Suffix an denotes locality ...
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... past tense exist . E balei ootik . Ootik e balei . E balei dya ootik . Anootik e chanum . Amanootik e chanum . Imootik e chanum . Ootik da e chanum . Examples The small house . The house is small . The house which is small . The water ...
... past tense exist . E balei ootik . Ootik e balei . E balei dya ootik . Anootik e chanum . Amanootik e chanum . Imootik e chanum . Ootik da e chanum . Examples The small house . The house is small . The house which is small . The water ...
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... or níai . You and I He He and I Ye ( dual ) They ( dual ) We ( ye and I ) We ( they and I ) Ye ( plural ) They ( plural ) The past tense is expressed by adding at the end 118 THE NABALOI DIALECT Conjugation of "to be here" and "to be there"
... or níai . You and I He He and I Ye ( dual ) They ( dual ) We ( ye and I ) We ( they and I ) Ye ( plural ) They ( plural ) The past tense is expressed by adding at the end 118 THE NABALOI DIALECT Conjugation of "to be here" and "to be there"
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The Nabaloi Dialect Otto Scheerer,Edward Young Miller,Sinabaldo De Mas y Sans No preview available - 2015 |
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aanak Achum Aligua aman akang anak Anchi Angken arrows asagoak asagoa nan asanem Baguio balei Guara balei-to Bataks Benguet brother's bulong chalan chanum Chinan chua d'man daughter's daughter's dima examples father gualo horse husband's Ibaloi Igorot idiomatic Ilocano iman Inan itan John kabadyo kabuasan kachiman kafon Kaime kalbiga sun kame Kankanai Kastil kayo killed kita knife Luzon mamunu mangan mata mata Mateo Na-ka aman Nabaloi English Nabaloi nan asagoak asagoa Negritos Ngaramto níai niman noun nuntan ootik Palawan pamunu pana Pangasinan panguduan particles past tense Philippine Photo by Worcester PLATE prefix pronoun pulo rice rice wine root Saidiai sambilacho san-sis-kei sawal saxei Sepai Si Kuan sikam tan sikak sikatayo sikáto tan sikak sister's son's son's Spanish sun Kaime sun sikara sun sikáto suta Suta chua'n táad taddo Tagalog Tagbanuas tayo to-morrow tope tribes Twái verbal forms woman words
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Page 183 - They have long, kinky hair and thick lips, and some have hairy faces and bodies. The hair stands out over the head like a bush. They are small in stature, but well formed. The men are slender, but the women are usually fat. Fatness seems to be a mark of beauty among the young women. They live close to nature. They do not cultivate the soil except to set out a few plants which yield edible roots, and in a few places plant small fields of rice.
Page 130 - LOVE, in the first person singular ? — second person singular? — third person singular? — first person plural?
Page 188 - It was the habit of the god to appear in certain cases in the form of a man, and so in this case he presented himself to the assembled people and asked where the deceased was, to which those present replied pointing to the nipa bundle in the center of the room. The god arose and blessed it and opened the bundle, when the shark was found to be alive and active as if it were in the sea. Upon seeing this deception the god was greatly angered and thundered forth a sentence, declaring that from that day...
Page 188 - When one iierson wishes to communicate with another he makes use of an object that suggests the idea he desires to impart. The young of both sexes make use of this means of communication when they desire to express their love, and as it has been practiced from a very early age they can understand with great ease. Venturello gives one of their religious myths which it may be well to present in full: These tribes, like the Tagbanuas, believe in the god called "Maguimba...
Page 157 - Three times, Four times, Five times, Six times, Seven times, Eight times, Nine times...
Page 128 - Let this tree be the object at (or with) which you execute the operation of planting;" "plant this tree." The manner in which the root as well as the particle may be .affected phonetically through the agglutination — that...
Page 105 - Kam-ol, three personal names; bulhul-6, butterfly; alam-am, a fern ; un-an, to go to see. The hiatus in question is like the one we make in English in such a word as tick-tack. It may be remarked finally that there are to be found in Nabaloi examples of that curious transposition of vowels within one word that is met with also in Ilocano and other native dialects. By a change of this kind the word andMinget, dark, for instance, will be heard as ambUanget, and others similarly.
Page 174 - ... with trees laid across it, and a number of other obstructions. At 9 o'clock we heard wild shouts and perceived a crowd of armed Igorot on the opposite range. At the same time it became impossible to advance. The path was beset with small, very sharp-pointed pieces of bamboo, and some of palma braea' driven into the ground, and with deep pitfalls covered with grass and furnished with bamboo spears in the center. There was also another kind of trap, called "balitil...
Page 173 - Igorot] cultivate in some regions immense fields of tobacco, which they introduce into the provinces. The consequence is the ruin of the tobacco revenue, the necessity of maintaining guards and troops to check this lawlessness, the extortions which these very officials commit in the towns, and, in short, so many expenses and troubles that it has been necessary more than once to send out special commissioners, and that this has come to be a question of arduous solution. In other regions they molest...
Page 178 - A biank in the original,— [TRANSLATOR.] 2To-day there are only nine houses in that valley.— [AUTHOR'S NOTE.l THE BATAKS OF PALAWAN 25586 7 179 PREFACE The following report on the Bataks of Palawan has been recently received from Lieut. EY Miller, governor of Palawan. The additional information which follows his report is from two papers issued by the Division of Military Information, Philippines Division — the one, pamphlet No.