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    This document provides an overview of non-verbal sentences in Butuanon, specifically descriptive, classification, and equational sentences. It explains that a Butuanon sentence has a topic and comment. Topic markers like "Si" and "Ang" indicate whether the topic is a personal name or non-personal name. Personal names use "Si" for singular and "Sinda" for plural topics. Non-personal names use "Ang" for singular and "Ang mga" for plural topics. Examples are given to illustrate the use of topics markers with names, titles, words, and phrases.

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    This document provides an overview of non-verbal sentences in Butuanon, specifically descriptive, classification, and equational sentences. It explains that a Butuanon sentence has a topic and comment. Topic markers like "Si" and "Ang" indicate whether the topic is a personal name or non-personal name. Personal names use "Si" for singular and "Sinda" for plural topics. Non-personal names use "Ang" for singular and "Ang mga" for plural topics. Examples are given to illustrate the use of topics markers with names, titles, words, and phrases.

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    Lesson One

    NON-VERBAL SENTENCES

    DESCRIPTIVE, CLASSIFICATION and EQUATIONAL

    SENTENCES

    A Butuanon sentence is made up of COMMENT and TOPIC.


    The TOPIC specifies what the speaker is going to talk about.

    TOPIC MARKERS indicate the TOPIC. For a PERSONAL NAME (PN) the
    topic markers areSI/SINDA. For a NON-PERSONAL NAME (NPN) the topic
    markers are ANG/ANG MGA.

    PERSONAL NAME (PN) refers to the names of persons or titles that are
    substituted for the names of persons. SI is the singular topic marker
    and SINDA is the plural form.

    Names: Jo – Maestro si Jo. Jo is a teacher.

    Bobit – Niwang sinda Bobit. Bobit and his companions are thin.

    Titles: Doktor – Buotan si Doktor. Doctor is kind.

    Attorney – Maaslag sinda Attorney. Attorney and his companions are big.

    NON-PERSONAL NAME (NPN) refers to words that are not names of persons
    or titles substituted for names of persons, and to groups of words, phrases and
    sentences, which function as a noun. ANGis the singular topic marker and ANG
    MGA is the plural form.

    Words:
    Ginoo – Maluluy-on ang Ginoo. God is merciful.

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