Ngadha Text Tradition: The Collective Mind of the Ngadha People, FloresDepartment of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1983 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 297 pages |
Common terms and phrases
adjectives ALL-CONTRAST.COLL.PL ALL-INDEF.N ancestor Arndt bamboo bha'i bodha cataphora ceremonial feast child-orphan clause contexts day after tomorrow devve dhano dhuu Dhuu-venngi-zua dia-na discourse emma emma-nara Examples expressions FATHER fish fishtrap function garden go-go goo-laba ensemble gourd hoga HONORIFIC house proper incl Indonesian INTERJ invocations ISBN ja'o kaba kazi ke'e kenna kenna-na Kolupenu la'a languages of Indonesia lau-mai ledhe lezza linguistics ma'a marker me'a means menna meze morphemes naji Narrative Paragraph narrator ne'e nennga nga'o Ngadha Ngadha culture ngara ngata ngaza ngedho ngee Note paragraph are marked particles pejja Penu and Vegu Penu's perfect aspect pronoun pu'u punu PV text sa'o sabu Sadha Saraseddu schwa SEAWARD-COME sentence sequential connectives siba sosa speaker Stokhof structure tagmemic Takatunga that-na thematic this-na UNTIL-night-two vado vali Vegu ana-halo Vegu the orphan Vegu's verbs village vula water buffalos Wezo word YOU=CL zale zele zeta