Bisayan grammar and notes on Bisayan rhetoric and poetics and Filipino dialectology

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A Bisayan Grammar

and Notes on Bisayan Rhetoric and Poetics and Filipino Dialectology

By Norberto Romuáldez, B.A. —Provincial Fiscal of Leyte, P.I.— —Attorney-at-Law— —Formerly Director of “San Jose” College of Takloban— —Professor of Latin—

O! good my lord, no Latin;

I am not such a truant since my coming

As not to know the language I have liv’d in

SHAKESPEARE

1908. “PAG PAHAYAG” CO.—TAKLOBAN.

All Rights of Publication and Translation Reserved.

TO THE TO THE YOUTH OF SAMAR AND LEYTE who are clearly demonstrating aspirations for a brighter future thru education this book is dedicated, in the hope that it may give a stimulus to their work and an incentive to appreciate what is best in their language as well as in the hope that, at a future day, some one of them may be fitted to do this work better than here presented.

The Author