Re: Questions about Tagalog

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>>No.   The glottal stop isn't used that way, is it?
>>Just word-finally.
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>Actually, yes.  Tagalogs put a glottal stop between
>two vowels that are written together.  Tagalogs even
>exhibit this tendency when reading something in
>English.
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It seemed that there should be... I don't know why, its just the book
said "pronounce the vowels separately"... and to make them very distinct
when I try seems to involve inserting a glottal stop. I think it was
trying to avoid scaring people with saying "glottal stop" in case they
didn't know what one was.

>><<3) Can anyone explain the use of a ligature in
>>this? "para sa anak kong
>>si Roy" (sorry if my memory has messed it up.. I
>>think that's right). I
>>believe kong is ko-ng, but I don't understand why
>>the book I was reading
>>inserts a ligature here... I'm very vague on exactly
>>when they're
>>required to be honest... I mean, I understand some
>>cases, but I'm not
>>sure about this one.>>
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>>I don't know what that means, but the /ng/ marker is
>>a clitic that attaches
>>to the previous word in most (if not
>>all) circumstances.   I can't remember the
>>particulars, but most of the
>>particles attach to previous words.   Of
>>course, /ng/ shouldn't be used there, 'cause it's a
>>proper name: That's why
>>there's /si/.
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>"Para sa anak kong si Roy" is perfectly correct. I
>can't really explain why there should be a "-ng"
>after the word "ko", but if I were to say, "Para sa
>anak ko si Roy", I'd feel I said something incomplete.
> To add an "ng" gives me a sense of fluidity in my
>speech.  Without the "ng", the sentence feels a little
>choppy.
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>Andre Militante
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I think I get it now,... the ng glues on "si Roy" to "anak ko" so that
it doesn't look like an argument to the verb. :) Two words I found
really interesting too:

pang-isahan
pandalawahan

These are given as meaning "single" and "double" as in rooms at hotels.
If I'm not wrong, don't these mean "place used for being one"... since
isa is one, -han would turn it into a verb with locative focus wouldn't
it? and pang- kindof means "used for"... and "place used for being two"
by similar reasoning. *winces* That's the only way I can think for them
to make sense... Just out of interest, do you use native tagalog or
spanish numbers more?

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