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The meaning of the vrddhi (augmented vowel) word is primarily to express a color, e.g. tino =a blue gem, taino =blue; if the original word cannot be used for its color, the vrddhi is used for its similarity, e.g. buso =a dog, bauso =an animal similar to a dog, e.g. the Tasmanian tiger; or for outer appearance, as in nuro =normal, nauro =something that seems to be normal, ordinary. | The meaning of the vrddhi (augmented vowel) word is primarily to express a color, e.g. tino =a blue gem, taino =blue; if the original word cannot be used for its color, the vrddhi is used for its similarity, e.g. buso =a dog, bauso =an animal similar to a dog, e.g. the Tasmanian tiger; or for outer appearance, as in nuro =normal, nauro =something that seems to be normal, ordinary. | ||
Formal Dama does not use the vrddhi (augmented vowel) function; instead, it uses "buwo" for color, "rano" for similarity, and "kawa" for outer appearance | Formal Dama does not use the vrddhi (augmented vowel) function; instead, it uses "buwo" for color, "rano" for similarity, and "kawa" for outer appearance. | ||
Another feature of informal Dama is its possibility to omit | Informal Dama can also lengthen (double or triple) the first or only vowel of a word in order to show enlargement, and the second vowel (that of the suffix) to show a diminutive; if an "a" is lengthened in this way, there must be a separatiting mark (') after the first "a". E.g. ba'ako =a big body (bako), ta'aamo =the huge sky, muuko =a big volume, wiiiwo =huge water (ocean), raboo =small tree (rabo), taroo= a small animal, jutooo is a tiny piece of skin, and so on. Formal Dama uses no enlargement / diminutive devices unless adjectives as miwo (big) and sano (small). | ||
Another feature of informal Dama is its possibility to omit a weak o / u of words, except a final o / u preceded by nasal (n / m). | |||
Informal Dama is only to be used in spoken language when one has to be very quick in expressing something. In written texts, informal Dama may appear in order to render accurately some informally spoken phrases, or in poetry for metric reasons. | |||
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