Re: Adjectives, Particles, and This ( etc ), and Conjunctions...

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:40:07 -0800 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> Tagalog has a three way distinction:
> itó - this
> iyán - that (near listener)
> iyón - that (away from both speaker and listener)
> Tagalog seems to use the above for different uses, with some
> changes, such as demonstratives of place:
> ditó - here
> diyán - there  (near listener)
> doón - there (away from both)
> Showing manner in verbs:
> ganitó - like this
> ganyán - like that
> ganoón - like that
> It's all pretty regular, and would seem artificial at first (Well, i
> thought it did).
> ____________________________
> Yours truly,
> Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia
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Reminds me of Rokbeigalmki...darnit, all the ideas are already taken by
those natlangs :-P !

dhaz / dhu  =  this / that
paz / pu  =  here / there
taz / tu  =  now / then
kaz / ku  =  here&now / there&then

also interestingly:
az = i
uz = it


-Stephen (Steg)
 "for you i will also give... a ferret."
     ~ *not* Eyal Golan, "Yafa Sheli"