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Gilo Grammar 19

Countries, Nationalities & Languages

1 Introduction

7  Verbs

13  Correlatives

19  Countries & People

2 Pronunciation

8  Adverbs

14  Commands and requests

20  Other Grammatical forms

3 Word Order

9  Tenses

15  Negatives

21  Alternative Word Orders

4 Vocabulary

10 Prepositions, Conjunctions

16  Reported Speech

22  Example Texts

5 Nouns

11 Numbers

17  Greetings Weather Etc

 

6 Adjectives

12 Questions

18  Dates, Times, Ages etc

 

 

19    Countries, Nationalities and Languages

 

Words for countries, people’s names, place names and currencies are always the native language names for those items, using phonetic Gilo spelling.  E.g. Moscow will be pronounced as it is in Russian - Moskva, Paris will be pronounced as in French - Pari and Rome will be as pronounced as in Italian - Roma.

 

·    England, English (lang.), Englishman

England, englandpo, englandil

·    Germany, German (language), German (person)

Doiclant, doiclantpo, doiclantul

·    Finland, Finnish, Fin, a Finnish table

Suomi, suomipo, suomiil, tab suomia

·    USA

yunaited staits ov amerika

·    USA language, American, American book

englandpo, amerikape, buk amerikana

·    London, Londoner, London cat

London, londonpe, kat londona

·    Paris, Parisian, Paris park, French bread

Pari, paripe, pãk paria, bred fransa

 

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Last revised: 13 July 2008

1 Introduction

7  Verbs

13  Correlatives

19  Countries & People

2 Pronunciation

8  Adverbs

14  Commands and requests

20  Other Grammatical forms

3 Word Order

9  Tenses

15  Negatives

21  Alternative Word Orders

4 Vocabulary

10 Prepositions, Conjunctions

16  Reported Speech

22  Example Texts

5 Nouns

11 Numbers

17  Greetings Weather Etc

 

6 Adjectives

12 Questions

18  Dates, Times, Ages etc

 

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