Biblical Hebrew Forum

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Vadim,

There is a national language institute in the Philippines 
as well as language departments in the many fine 
Universities there where native speaking scholar study 
Tagalog and other Austronesian languages.  The geographic 
ranges of these languages stretch from Madagascar to Taiwan 
to Easter Island and many have long histories of written 
literature with a variety of alphabets and syllabaries 
(Roman, Arabic, Indian, and indignous).  You may rest 
assured that the characterization of verb inflection for 
aspect and not tense is not some artificially imposed 
construct from ignorant outsiders but very much how the 
native scholars view the issue.


Jack Tladatsi