Karri-borlbme Kun-wok

ngaye

ngaye

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English Translation
(Kun-balandaken)
I, me
Pronunciation
(Bale ka-yime karri-ngeybun?)

ngai-yeh
The 'ng' at the start of the word is difficult for English speakers. Put the top of the back of your tongue up against the back of your mouth (the velum) and pull it down. A popular exercise is to say the English word singer in two very distinct syllables si-nger and then drop off the si- and just say the -nger. Then try all the vowel combinations: nga, nge, ngi, ngo, ngu

Morphology
(Karri-wokdjobdjobke)

Notes
(Njalenjale)

In Bininj Gunwok dialects, there are pronouns that are attached to verbs as prefixes but there are also free-standing equivalents. The free- standing forms are more emphatic. Usually all you need is the prefixed form:

nga-re 'I am going/I will go'

but:
Ngaye nga-re 'Me, I'm going!'

Usage
(Bale kabirri-yime?)

Ngaye, nga-warnyak.
Me, I don't want it.

Ngaye ngarduk ngal-binjkurrng.
Me, my mother-in-law (or 'My own mother-in-law').

Date
(Balekeno)
07 Jun 2012