Re: Syllable-Initial /N/
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 4:52 |
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:52:27 -0500, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
>
>> Initial [N] isn't at all exotic. But I can't speak for others here, since
>> my L1 is filled with these things. :-)
>
>Teonaht: ngadol, "meat." ngorik, "throat." ngallinga, "abscess." ngordaf,
>"murder." Mostly bad concepts.
Lindiga has ngachki "dark blue-green", ngafi "few", ngerli "none", nguki
"west", ngulmu "mole (animal)", ngurnda "iguana", and nguorzi "five". Not
bad considering the small size of the current Lindiga vocabulary. Tirelat
has ngai "even, indeed", ngak "duck", ngaky "geographical pole", ngarma "to
cook", ngerek "puddle", ngootz "corpse", ngum "hum", ngurmul "thunder", and
ngyma "moss".
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