> From: Jonathan Chang <Zhang2323@...>
> Subject: Re: time distinctions
>
> >After searching long and hard for the source (an linguistics textbook),
> >I found it, the language is called ChiBemba:
> >Remote Past (before yesterday)
> >Removed Past (yesterday)
> >Near Past (earlier today)
> >Immediate Past (just happened)
> >Immediate Future (very soon)
> >Near Future (later today)
> >Removed Future (tomorrow)
> >Remote Future (after tomorrow)
> >
> >No present is listed. Perhaps that's because present is marked by no
> >prefix?
>
> probably.
>
> Wish there were samples of this language ChiBemba.... be neat to see
how
> it works/looks...
Okay...
From the "Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary":
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/CBOLD/
Bemba (Chibemba) language dictionary:
http://bantu.berkeley.edu/PNF:byName:/CBOLDFTP/Dictionaries/Bemba.Mann1995/
Dunno if that'll help.
*Muke!