Download Apatani Book

 
/ g / is voiced velar stop.

garu
‘pillow’
agu
‘mouth’

/ c / is voiceless affricate

ciku
‘pocket’
daca
 ‘iron’

/ j / is voiced affricate

jije
‘true’
jiji
‘blue’

/ m / is voiced bilabial nasal.


ma
 ‘no’
tamo
‘strong’
bom
‘bomb’

/ n / is voiced alveolar nasal.


nago
‘place of worship’
anu
‘younger brother’

/ n / is realized as palatal nasal [ñ] before palatal stops [c] and [j].


goñci
‘dragon fly’
geñji
‘banian’

/ m/ is voiced velar nasal.

o
‘I’
hi´ini
‘third’

// is realized through the nasalization of the preceding vowel when it occurs in the word final position.


/adi/ is realized as adi ^
/agu/ is realized as agu ^

/m/ is realized as the homorganic nasal of the following stop when it is combined with words/morphemes having initial stops.

anyi +   pyun   ---->

anyimpyun     ‘milkman’


/ r / is voiced alveolar flap.

rubu
‘ear drum’
yara
‘ear ’
sucur
‘antelope’

./ l / is alveolar lateral

laci
‘finger’
ale
‘wing’
botel
‘bottle’

/ s / is alveolar fricative

si
‘cattle’
pasu
‘needle’
opis
‘office’

/ x / is voiceless velar fricative

xdo
‘be costly’
axa
 ‘old’

/ h / is glottal fricative

hena
‘wrong’
ahi
 ‘tooth’

 

 

Previous

Next

top

 
Apatani Index Page
 
FeedBack | Contact Us | Home
ciil grammar footer