Animals: Manga Binatang 1

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This is our 3rd post for Sinūg Vocabulary... Now we will learn all about Animals (manga binatang). Keep learning and practicing your Bahasa Sug :) Be proud of it!

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Week 3
Manga Binatang	Animals
Sinūg	English
ista'	fish
kagang	crab
ullang	shrimp
bauu	turtle (land)
payukan	sea turtle
indung	eel
kaytan	shark
amu'	monkey
ambaw	mouse
kuting	cat
iru'	dog
sapi'	cow
kābaw	carabao
kura'	horse
manuk	chicken
manuk-manuk	bird
kambing	goat
bili-bili	sheep
gadja	elephant

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-Ahmad (aka Anak iluh)

Parts of the Body

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This is the second week for our Sinug Vocabulary series... This time we will talk about Parts of our body :) This things you learn in preschool or grade school haha. Check the tag Vocabulary for other vocabulary posts. Hope you will enjoy this.

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Week 2
Parts of the body
English	Sinug
Head	Uw
Body	Baran
Back	Taykud
Hair	Buhuk
Eyebrow	Kilay
Eye	Mata
Nose	Ilung
Forehead	Tuktuk
Lips	Higad simud
Ears	Taynga
Neck	Liug
Shoulder	Abaga
Arms	Buktun
Elbow	Siku
Hands	Lima
Fingers	Gulamay lima
Abdomen	Tiyan
Chest	Daghal
Thigh	Paa
Knees	Tuhud
Legs	Bi'tis
Feet	Siki

All around us: Katilibut ta

Salam!

We have been in a very long break. I am so sorry for that, been so busy with school stuffs. But I am trying as much to reply to your emails, thank you for still visiting our blog midst the long long break hehe.

I realized most of the emails are for translations of simple words, on Sinug Vocabulary. So, starting this month, we will introduce at least 20 Sinug words every week (in sha Allah, God willing if I am not busy). THis will hel us increase our vocabulary to update :) I might upload some video recordings on some words that are hard to pronounce.

Memorize them every week. Keep practicing. Talk with a Tausug friend :)

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And of course, enjoy learning Bahasa Sug!

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Week 1
English	Sinug
Trees	Kahuy
Leaves	Dahun
Flowers	Sumping
Fruits	Bunga/Bungang-kahuy
Mountain	Buwd/Bud
River	Sapa'
Water	Tubig
Sea	Dagat
Seashore	Daplakan
Rocks	Batu
Sky	Langit
Clouds	Gabun
Rain	Ulan
Rainbow	Bangaw
Lightning	Kilat
Thunder	Daugdug
Wind	Hangin
Land	Lupa'
Sand	Buhangin
Mud	Pisak

Piil: An intro to Verbs

February 18, 2013  Monday

         Bismillah. This is an Introductory post for “Part 3: Verbs” in Tausug 101: Learning Bahasa Súg. For the list of past lessons, please go to: Lists of Lessons

         Piil the TauSúg term for Verbs comes from the Arabic “Fi’lun” or “Fi’il” (Faa-‘Ain-Laam) which means “Action” or simply put, “Verbs”. These terms are involved in actions that had been done before (past), that is being done (present), and will be done in the future (future).

         In learning any languages, learning the verbs and their different forms is perhaps one of the hardest things to do (at least for me). There are just a lot of things to consider in changing the verbs done in the present to its past tense, then the future, and so on.  This of course is also applicable to our beloved Bahasa Súg. Really, a single post like this would be enough for us to realize how complicated the Tausug Verbs and their constructions, forms and applications are. That’s why we have this “Introduction”, hopefully to make things less complicated, In shaa Allah.

         Let’s look at some examples of Piil in Bahasa Súg:

	Bahasa Súg	English
Root word	Kaun	To eat
Past	Kimaun aku tinapay.	I ate bread.
	Kiyaun ku in tinapay.	I ate the bread.
	Nakakaun aku tinapay.	I have eaten bread.
Present	Kimakaun aku tinapay.	I am eating bread.
	Kiyakaun ku in tinapay.	I am eating the bread.
	Nagkakaun aku tinapay.	I am eating bread.
Future	Kumaun aku tinapay.	I will eat bread.
	Kaunun ku in tinapay.	I will eat the bread.
	Makakaun da aku tinapay.	I will soon eat bread.

                Here, we have the root word Kaun which means “To eat” and the some of the forms it can take. If we want to use the Past form of the word Kaun, we can choose from the different past forms it has. Among those are Kimaun and Kiyaun which both means “ate” or Nakakaun which means “have eaten”.  On the other hand, to use it in Present form, we can either use Kimakaun, Kiyakaun or Nagkakaun. Same goes with the Future forms, Kumaun, Kaunun, and Makakaun.

                Tricky isn’t it?

The examples we have above are nothing but a few of the many different forms a Tausug Piil can have, depending on how it is used. This only shows how complicated the Piil  are. For a complete list of the different forms of Piil in BahasaSúg (all 43 of them!), you can download the file “Manga kapiil-piilan: Different forms of Verbs in Bahasa Sug” at the end of this post.

Before we begin learning the Piil here are some things we have to know first:

Root Words

         Tausug Piil, just like any verbs in other languages follow certain rules in word construction. They can change from one form to the other, together with their meanings, depending on how they are used in a sentence.  And one enormous factor that can help a beginner in mastering the different forms of the verbs is by knowing which part of the word is actually the Root Word (Piil Puunan*) and which is not. Of course, because the root words of each verb can always be different, knowing the Not-Root-Words (the affixes or Hurup gaganap) will be helpful. 

The Affixes used in Piil

         Affixes according to wikipedia are “units of words” attached to root words to form a new word. There are many affixes used in constructing Piil in Bahasa Sug. These are prefixes, infixes and suffixes added to the root words of a verb that changes their meanings. Here is a list of the common affixes added to Piil in Bahasa Sug:

Prefixes (added at the beginning)	Infixes (added in between)	Suffixes (added at the end)
Im-	-im-	-un/-hun
Iy-	-iy-	-an/-han
Um-	-um-	-a/-ha
Na-/Ma-		-i/-hi
Naka-/Maka-
Nag-/Mag-/Pag-
Nang-/Mang-
Pa-/Piya-/
Ka-/Kiya-
Ha-/Hika-

                By simply removing these affixes in a verb, one will be able to identify the root word and thus the meaning of the verb itself. Soon we will learn that a Piil mayexhibit attachment ofone of the affixes above singularly like Imiyan, Kumita’,and Bassahun; or with two or more affixes as in Piyabaytaan, and Naglingugan.  Familiarize with these “affixes” and things will be easier on the next lessons to come, In shaa Allah.

Changes in Sounds

         Another unique thing that is mostly found in Piil in Bahasa Sugis how letters (or sounds) can change from one form to the other. We have already learned about how the letter /D/ can change into the sound of /R/ in lesson 3##link##. In learning the verbs, there are a few more changes similar with that of letters /D/ and /R/ that we must be familiar with. They are the following:

The Letters B and P can change to /M/: Verbs starting with letters B and P will have the sound of /M/ in some form of verbs like: Bayta’ to Namayta’; Patay to Miyatay; and so on.

The Letters S and T can change to /N/: Verbs beginning with letters S and T can also take the sound of /N/ just like in Sukna’ to Nanukna’ and Taykud  to Nanaykuri.

The Letter K can change to /Ng/: Verbs starting with K like Kita’ and Kaykit can change and take the sound of /Ng/ as in Nangita’ and Nangaykit, respectively.

And of course, the Letter D can change to /R/. As learned in Lesson 3.

                POINT OF INFORMATION: The abovementioned changes don’t always happen every time the verb with the corresponding letter changes forms. There are only certain conditions when these changes are done which we will soon learn in the succeeding lessons.

BL4: Days of the Week

               Bismillah. This is the 4th Bonus lesson for “Tausug 101: Learning Bahasa Sug” by Anak Iluh. For lists of lessons, please go to: Lists of Lessons.

                Alhamdulillah, after yet another long time of no updates in this blog, we finally managed to come back. Alive. No, the lectures in Tausug 101 have not yet ended. There are still a lot of wonderful things to be learned in Bahasa Sug. We are just—how do we say this—preparing, to improve our lessons in shaa Allah. We know that our readers are already itching for the next lessons to be published. So today, we have prepared a short bonus lesson for our readers: The days of the Week.

The Days of the Week

               There are seven days of a week (of course). And because the Tausugs are among the Muslims, we also follow the Hijrah Calendar and thus the Arabic version of the “months” and “days” as well. We will not talk about the Hijrah Months coz it would take us another lesson (and another title than above); we will just talk about the names of the “days” in Bahasa Sug and other “things” that are indirectly or directly related to them.

               Adlaw is the equivalent of the English word “Day”. And Duwm, on the other hand is the equivalent of “Night”. Other terms that we must learn by heart are:

Bahasa Sug	English
Adlaw	Day
Duwm	Night
Biháun	Today
Káhapun	Yesterday
Ta’kisa	The day before yesterday
Kunsuwm	Tomorrow
Ku’nisa	The day after tomorrow (No, not the Movie.)
Duwm ini	Tonight
Kábii	Last night
Mahinaat/Maynaat	Morning
Mahapun	Afternoon
Mataas Suga	Noon
Tungaan Duwm	Midnight
Hangka pitu	A week

                Learning the terms above will make you an expert in learning the days and nights of Bahasa Sug. The names of the seven days in the week are as follows:

Ngán sin manga adlaw ha lawn sin hangka pitu

(Names of the days in a week)

Bahasa Sug	English
Ahad	Sunday
Isnin	Monday
Salása	Tuesday
Albaa	Wednesday
Hammis	Thursday
Jumaat	Friday
Sabtu’	Saturday

*Note: There are no nursery-songs for these names. Feel free to make your own.

                Now let us put those terms we just learned into applications. Here are the common statements using the “days” of the week:

Adjectives Using Sipat

          Bismillah. This is the second part of Lesson 10 in “Tausūg 101: Learning Bahasa Sūg” by Anak Iluh. For more lessons, please check out the page on “List of Lessons”.

          Last time we have introduced the common Tausūg Sipat (Adjectives), their usual structures and some of their irregular forms. Today we will talk about how a sipat is used in a sentence (At least just the easy ones, for now). Let’s begin the lesson by observing the following examples first:

Bahasa Sūg	English
bāy (our favorite example haha)	House
(1) Bāy malaggu’	Big house
(2) Malaggu’ bāy	Big house
(3) In bāy malaggu’	The house is big.
(4) Malaggu’ in bāy	The house is big.

          The first two examples are the usual way of directly describing an object (bāy, “house”) using a sipat (malaggu’, “big”). The last two examples are the ‘complete’ form of sentences as we added the noun marker in, which is the equivalent of the English article “the” (remember that noun-markers must always be placed before the noun it identifies). There are times that interchanging the orders of the two (object and sipat) does not affect the construction of the sentence whatsoever. But there are also times that one form (say examples 1 and 3, wherein the object comes before the sipat) is more preferred than the other form (examples 2 and 4, which is the opposite).

          Again, there are no grammar rules yet as how to call these forms; so for the sake of this lesson and for us to have something to use in this site only, we will make our own ‘names’ to call them. [A friendly reminder, these are not official names or rules of grammars in Bahasa Sūg. We just want to make things easier for our readers in this site. If you happen to find any mistakes here, please do inform us that we may correct them immediately. Magsukul]

          The first form is shown in examples (1) and (3) wherein the object (bāy) comes before the sipat (malaggu’). We will call this form the Object-Sipat Form or O-S Form (weird huh?). Examples (2) and (4) will be the other forms: the Sipat-Object Form or S-O Form, wherein the object comes after the sipat thus the name. We will be using the two names throughout the lesson, in sha Allah.  

Bahasa Sūg		English
O-S Form	S-O Form
badju’ malummi’	malummi’ badju	dirty shirt
sapi’ matambuk	matambuk sapi’	Fat cow
babai malingkat	malingkat babai	beautiful girl
tinapay mapasu’	mapasu’ tinapay	hot bread

Using sipat with possessive pronouns

          So, how do we say “My big house” or “His dirty shirt” in Bahasa Sūg? Again, (as we always do) let us learn from these examples:

Bahasa Sūg		English
O-S Form	S-O Form
bāy ku malaggu’	malaggu’ báy ku	my big house
badju’ niya malummi’	malummi’ badju niya	his dirty shirt
sapi’nila matambuk	matambuk sapi’nila	their fat cow

          Remember that we have learned in lessons 6 about dependent possessive pronouns (genitive form). These pronouns cannot stand alone and thus they must always come after an object. In OS Form, we observe that the pronouns ku, niya, and nila are placed after their respective objects, and before the sipats. In the SO Form, because the object already comes in the end, the pronouns are simply attached to the phrases.

Note: For all of these examples we have, the OS Form is more preferably used in conversations and is more accepted. Although they basically mean the same, the O-S Form is more, uhm, clear and easily understood. As for the reasons why… We unfortunately don’t know. Hehe. The S-O Form simply feels awkward to say or hear; there’s this “something’s missing here” feeling, so avoid using the S-O form alone with pronouns in conversing, if possible.

Sipat: Common Adjectives

           Bismillah. This is Lesson number 10 and the last lesson for Part II: Words and Phrases for “Tausug 101: Learning Bahasa Sug” by Anak Iluh. For complete lists of lessons (and to check where we are now), please go to: Lists of Lessons.

           Before we begin, let me first apologize to all of our readers for the delay of lessons for the past few weeks. Blame my Final Exams who had literally put me (and all of my classmates as well) in full battle-gear. Of course, I have to prepare for them in able to survive and make it for the next sem. Alhamdulillah, everything went well naman, and now we’re back to our tracks (yeay! *clap clap*). 

           For today’s lesson, we are going to talk about the most-sensible, most-intriguing, most-beautiful, most-awaited, and most-adjectively-described part of the sentence: the Commonly used Tausug Sipat (Adjectives).

           Tausug Sipat (from the Arabic “sifat”) are used to describe a particular object. It is basically used to give us more idea on how the object looks like; how big or small; how tall or short; how far or near; on how it smells, what color it has, etc., etc. I believe we already got the idea about a sipat, so we should move on to our next question: “How do we identify a sipat?” Here’s a short (a very short, indeed) guideline we made in identifying sipats.

Identifying Sipat.

1. Know what the sipat means.

           Of course, it goes without further explanations that the best way to identify a sipat is to know what it means; or what is its translation to English or Tagalog. At the end of this post, we have provided a download link on “Manga Kasipat-sipatan (Common Tausug Adjectives)”. Please be sure to download and print a copy later =)

      2. Know the origin of the sipat.

           Most sipats have a common similarity. They have a common denominator that distinguishes them from the other parts of the speech: Most sipat (not all) starts with the prefix “Ma-” and then followed by a noun it represents. This is also observed in Tagalog, but not in English. Let us study the examples below:

  

	Tausug	Tagalog	English
Example 1
Noun	Lingkat	Ganda	Beauty
Adjective	Malingkat	Maganda	Beautiful
Example 2
Noun	Lanab	Lása	Taste
Adjective	Malanab	Malása	Tasteful

           It can be observed that adding the prefix “Ma-” to a noun in Tausug and Tagalog languages is just like adding the suffix “-ful” to a noun in English language to turn it into an adjective. That is just how easy it is!