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CONLANG Digest - 26 Aug 2000 to 27 Aug 2000 (#2000-233)

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Monday, August 28, 2000, 12:31
> 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!