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.
Copyright 1908
By Norberto Romuáldez
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 [[III]]