Re: Syllable-Initial /N/
| From: | Elyse Grasso <emgrasso@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 16:25 |
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On Tuesday 01 April 2003 09:55 pm, Herman Miller wrote:
> 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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Imperial has both ng and nq (which is articulated farther back) but I
don't know any words that begin with either of them (I know very few
Imperial words yet, and even fewer in the true pronunciation).
Jouevyaix has initial ng:
ngadth "genetic sibling", ngaid "one of the halasi playing pieces",
ngais "north", ngaiv "clan", ngaul "ensnare", ngazh "plains", nge "ABS
particle", ngoij "during", ngoth "around (go around a barrier)"
out of a 500 word vocabulary.
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