Pangasinan orthography by Mejia

Here are the rules of Pangasinan orthography proposed by Pablo Mejia in his book Bilay tan Kalkalar nen Rizal.

[nia, ninia, nirania, dia, onia] should be [niya, niniya, niranya, diya, oniya]

[saya, satan, saman] before verb

[itan, iman] after verb ending with a consonant

['ya, 'tan, 'man] after verb ending with a vowel

['ya] as mananuro always has an apostrophe wether it follows a verb ending with a consonant and vowel

[na saya, na satan, na saman] become [-nya, -ntan, -nman] and attaches to a word it follows when ending in a vowel (e.g., manalanya, mangalantan, mangalanman)

[diya, ditan, diman] become [-dya, -dtan, -dman] when following a vowel (e.g., wadya, wadtan, wadman)

• exceptions: if [diya, ditan, diman] follows [no, na, so, singa] (e.g., no diya; singa ditan]

[dia ed] becomes [diad] not [diya ed, diyad, dyad]

[dia] a preposition is different from [diya] panangeper

[diya] can stay at the begining and end of a sentence (e.g. Diya man-ayam; Man-ayam diya)

[dia] can't stay at the end of a sentence (e.g. siak ited mo dia ed)

[diya] may not come with [ed] (e.g. Diya man ayam.)

[dia] always comes with [ed] (e.g. dia siak ited moy kuarta)

[rá] to express "biglan besngaw"

['ra] to express mabanayad

[saraya, saratan, saraman] come before a verb (e.g., saraya mankimey, saratan mankimey, saraman mankimey)

[saraya, saratan, saraman] become [iraya, iratan, iraman] when following a consonant (e.g. mankimey iraya, mankimey iratan, mankimey iraman)

[iraya, iratan, iraman] become [raya, ratan, raman] when following a vowel (e.g., Mangawa raya, ondere ratan, mikasi raman)

[rá] as sandingaran could combine with ['ya, 'tan, 'man] (e.g., Inbaga ra 'ya)

if [rá] is a sandingaran or panangayarian pananuron ['ya] can be combined with it (e.g., rá 'ya, rá 'tan, rá 'man)

[rá] becomes [da] when followed by [ra, raya, ratan, raman, ranya, rantan] (e.g. Inala da 'ra; Inbaki da 'ra)

[ko] becomes [ta] if followed by [ka] or [kayo] (e.g., "Aroen takayo" not "Aroen ko kayo")

[ta] could partner with [sikata] (e.g., sikata inaralta so gramatica) but it's okay if [sikata] is no longer used

[ta] could be used in a question (e.g., Tá, napanoleyan moak? Akin ta et ontay gawaen mo?) but put accent in "a" and coma when at the beginning.

Salitan nantetekep

• wadyan (wa diya ya)
• inalatadman (inala ta diman)
• inalatadmay (inala ta diman ya)
• kinerewladyan (kinerew la diman ed)

[o] vs [u]

• ikana lahwas so "u" ed bekas a maranet
• ikana lahwas so "o" ed bekas a marlas o aliwan maranet

mungay-bigla
mungay kaduadanet
mungay katlodanet
munay kapatdanet
munay duankaranetan

sikato so -> sikatoy
dia ed -> diad
linma ed -> linmad
iraya -> raya
Talao na Pangasinan -> Talaoy Pangasinan
lahbi ya ambilonget -> lahbin ambilonget
dalin na mayaman -> daliy mayaman
sikato sirin so onla -> sikato siri onla

not:

• sikato'y
• dia'd
• linma'd
• 'raya
• Talao'y
• lahbi'n
• dali'
• sikato siri'

Use ' after proper noun (e.g., Nito'y akankien).
Don't separate two vowels or two consonants using a dash

No dash between pasngeg and ngaran (e.g., manJudas, nanPenggo) except when ngaran begins with a vowel (e.g., man-Ana)

1srt = k1
2nd = k2
etc.

komatlon dasig = k3n dasig

[an, anan] become [wan, wanan] when following "o" (e.g., Kaarowan)
[en, anen] become [wen, wanen] when following "o" (e.g., Im-impowen)

[an, anan] become [yan, yanen]