Bisayan grammar and notes on Bisayan rhetoric and poetics and Filipino dialectology

who are clearly demonstrating aspirations for a brighter future thru education this book is dedicated, in the hope that it may give a stimulus to their work and an incentive to...

An batà nagbahása han surát ni Pedro (the boy reads Peter’s letter). Hirá Carlos ng̃an hi Juan naghátag (Charles and John gave flowers canda Tomás ng̃an hi Pedro hin mg̃a to Tho...

Maca has the idea of potentiality, and is added to the beginning of the primitive, by doubling the first syllable of the primitive or by using the intermix r combined with the f...

There is no inflection for Bisayan nouns to distinguish their different cases, as in Greek and Latin. The cases are determined by the prepositions and by variable parts of speec...

NOTE.—There are in Bisayan forms resembling and equivalent in many instances to the Latin infinitive future ending in rus, in active, and in dus, in passive, as amaturus and ama...

PRESENT SINGULAR | PLURAL acó, etc. (I am, etc. | camí, etc. (we are, etc. sinusuratán addressed with a | sinusuratán addressed with a letter) | letter) | PAST | acó, etc. (I wa...

sinurat nagsisinurat CONTINUATIVE casurat nacacasurát ABSOLUTE POTENTIAL cagsurat nacacagsurát RELATIVE POTENTIAL isusúrat náisusurat ABSOLUTE APTATIVE ipagsusúrat náipagsusurat...

Abierto, abre (open) for Binucsan, inucáb, bucás ucáb. Adorno (adornment) ,, Dayan, rayandayan Agua (used to mean perfume) ,, Talamhot Aguanta (wait suffer) ,, Ílob, hulát Alist...

Di ba sadto ánay imo akó sig̃sig̃ sa walá g̃a kamót, todló tamoyig̃kig̃; baman itó niyán di ka na násiplat, ¿anó an solá ko sa imo nabóhat?

[43] The name Calyarâ (native name of the town of Carigara, Leyte) has been probably originated from Cangara (placed of one called Garâ). A similar explanation might be given fo...