A Grammar of Vai |
Common terms and phrases
àá adverbial affirmative àì alternation ànú ànú'à appear bé'è clause construction marker copula English examples expressed fè'á fè'è féŋ forms free noun high tone hìí ideophones íì initial consonant intervocalic intransitive verbs kàí kápà kèmú kéŋě kí'à kò'à kò'áǎ kò'ò koŋ kpò'ó léŋ lexical tones londó low tone low-high má à sò máà Mande languages mànjáă mbè meaning mèé mènúú Monrovia morpheme mùì mùsú ná-nà ná'à náánì námá nasal nasal consonants nasal-oral sequences nasalized vowels negative níè Niger-Congo languages noun phrase núú parataxis plural possessor pronoun qualificatives recorded reference regular compounds relational noun relational particle relative construction rice sàkpá sámbà sàn sé'èŋ second member sentence sínà stem tones suffix tàà táá'à tân tâŋ té'é tìè tion tonal usages verb stem verbal predications vowels wé'è word ý má