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

Note 45 — Parts of Speech.

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There seems to be no doubt that this word ribo has the same origin as the Tagalog “libo”; but each one has a different meaning: while the Bisayan libo means ten thousand, the Tagalog libo means only one thousand. To express ten thousand, the Tagalogs have the word lacsá. ↑

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