Pacific Linguistics. Series B.Australian National University., 1970 - Oriental philology |
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... nungu and mere ( a ) The particle nungu indicates movement towards the speaker or chief point of reference of the sentence . It may either precede or follow the affix unit and verb stem . Examples : wuta nungu anya kur ngenila me for ...
... nungu and mere ( a ) The particle nungu indicates movement towards the speaker or chief point of reference of the sentence . It may either precede or follow the affix unit and verb stem . Examples : wuta nungu anya kur ngenila me for ...
Page 88
... nungu ngamama we sit ( F ) ; later afternoon back wul ; yu nanungu nungu ngamama return ; yes afternoon back we stand ( F ) wakkar we stand ( F ) wowe yena nala ; return camp in it for ; kini muntyir ngaran nungkuti mupiningka wul ...
... nungu ngamama we sit ( F ) ; later afternoon back wul ; yu nanungu nungu ngamama return ; yes afternoon back we stand ( F ) wakkar we stand ( F ) wowe yena nala ; return camp in it for ; kini muntyir ngaran nungkuti mupiningka wul ...
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... nungu ; ninyala ngawanti - winya wul ; yetara - winya miri ; tyapat back : you for I take ( F ) them purini ; mawuny ... nungu ; tyapat me return back ; wash state it for clothes ; nungu ; marany wutira nala ngaporo - ninya you go ( F ) ...
... nungu ; ninyala ngawanti - winya wul ; yetara - winya miri ; tyapat back : you for I take ( F ) them purini ; mawuny ... nungu ; tyapat me return back ; wash state it for clothes ; nungu ; marany wutira nala ngaporo - ninya you go ( F ) ...
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Common terms and phrases
affix units allophones atolls compounds consonant CSNG FIN ASK CSNGP ASK deliberate speech example Family formants forms free variation fricative glottal stop go NF go(F go(NF Grammar Guinea Linguistics Guinea Phylum hand NF HEALEY HUP WHF Hypothesis initial interphylic series kangani karawala keni KIW a,c language isolate lie NF long vowel Maranungku MCELHANON meat members of series morpheme morpheme meaning nala nasal natural speech non-final non-Future noun nungu occur PACIFIC LINGUISTICS Papeete past phonemes Phonology phrase stress piya plural Polynesian languages primary stress pronoun protoform Residue say NF second constituent semi-vocalized sentence series of cognates speaker spear suffix syllable Tahiti Tahitian Telefol Trans-New Guinea tyaltyara tyinta unrounded unstressed verb stem vocoid voiced voiceless Voorhoeve vowel cluster vowel reductions witya WURM wuta yena yuwa