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The Nabaloi Dialect Otto Scheerer,Edward Young Miller,Sinabaldo De Mas y Sans No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
Achum Aligua aman akang aman akou aman asak Anchi Angken appat asagoak asagoa nan asanem balei balei-to Bataks Benguet blowgun brother's chalan chanum chua'n dasus daughter's daughter's diai dima dsiam eating English Nabaloi English Nabaloi English father gualo Guara horse husband Ibaloi Ibaloi Igorot Igorot Ilocano Imperative Inan itan John kabadyo kabuasan kachiman kalbiga sun kame Kankanai kaon kayo ka aman killed kinalbig-to kita Kuan maakang mamunu Mexican mother's Na-ka aman Nabaloi English Nabaloi nan asagoak nan asagoak asagoa Negritos Ngaramto niman noun nuntan ootik Pangasinan pápa particles past tense Philippine PLATE prefix pronounced pulo rice root Saidiai san da-sus san-sis-kei sawal saxei Second person plural Sepai Si Kuan sikam tan sikak sikatayo sikáto tan sikak son's son's Spanish strike James sun Kaime sun sikara sun sikáto suta taddo Tagalog Tagbanuas tayo Third person plural to-morrow tope tribes verbal forms wife's words
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Page 179 - 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 170 - ... 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 brara* 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 97 - ... the head-hunting, cattle-thieving, and kidnaping Igorot living around and south of the mountain Data in what is sometimes called the Kabusolan or territory of the Busol. With them the Ibalois have lived since olden times in deadly feud. (Compare the Ilocano words "busol...
Page 103 - A, between the three kinds of 0, and between the first and second sounds under E, because, being influenced by the neighboring dialects, they become more or less distinct according to the geographical position of each rancheria.
Page 103 - Kam-ol, three personal names ; bidl/iil-6, butterfly ; (dam-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 amMMnget, dark, for instance, will be heard as amMlunget, and others similarly. A certain author...
Page 134 - He was standing and looking. 1 am sitting and eating. He was sitting and eating. He was standing and holding a gun. He held a gun. He pointed a gun. He was standing and pointing a gun. The boy was crying and eating. John is walking and whistling. The bird is flying. The snake is crawling. The fish is swimming. The dog is barking. The horse is neighing. The eagle is screaming. The frog is croaking. The bee is humming.
Page 169 - These idolaters [the 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...
Page 98 - ... disposition that does not, however, prevent their being shrewd though silent observers of what they see of the outer world. They are conscious of a closer kinship with the neighboring Igorot tribes and also of consanguinity with the Christian lowlanders from whom they are separated, more than by anything else, by the fact that the latter have adopted Spanish faith and civilization. The diversity of dialects, which to some would seem a great barrier, does not appear so to them, for what indeed...
Page 172 - Igorot, who hurled their spears at them, one of which knocked off the sun helmet of a soldier, but by dint of blows with the butt ends of the guns the Igorot were at last disarmed and bound. They were drunk, and nothing was to be got out of them but menaces and insults. I directed my steps toward a group of houses at one side of the valley and there halted. Soon afterwards four Igorot were brought before me, one of them the son of Dansalit. They had been caught armed, hidden in a well. To the son...
Page 98 - there is," which becomes guara, and the Ilocano darayan, a kind of banana, which becomes cfuimyan, may serve as typical instances of the changes so occurring. The influence on Nabaloi of the language of Pangasinan, from which province the main body of the Ibaloi Igorot is separated nowadays by the little-inhabited mountain complex of the Mangitkiran Peak (Monte de Santo Tomás), seems to have taken place in a former period of probably closer proximity of the Ibaloi Igorot and the people of Pangasinan.