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Re: Tagalog

From:Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
Date:Thursday, September 14, 2000, 18:51
SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:

>This is not related to Conlang, but I think there are people here who can >help me. I'm looking for how to say things like "Good morning", >"Good-bye", "How are you?" in Tagalog. Basically, looking for some >of those polite nothings people use.
I'm from the Philippines -- here goes. "magandang umaga" = good morning "magandang tanghali" = good afternoon "magandang gabi" = good night "kumusta" = how are you? "salamat" = thanks "paki..." = would you please... e.g. "pakitulong" = would you please help ...and its important to use "po" (meaning 'sir/maam') after these polite nothings towards either a stranger, an elder, or someone important (e.g. teacher, doctor, policeman, etc.). [Note on Word Accent and Orthography: In Filipino orthography, "ng" is considered to be one letter and represents a velar nasal /N/. I haven't marked the accents in these words in case your mail-reader can't read them. But here's a summary: "po" is stressed with a glottal catch ['po?], "magandang" has final stress, and "gabi" also has final stress but with word-final aspiration [ga'bih] unless "po" is added [gabi'po?]. All other words have penultimate stress.] What else do you need to know? Aren't there online resources for this stuff? Tagalog isn't exactly unknown in the internet community. -kristian- 8)