Download Apatani Book --Select Grammar Book-- ABJUHMARIA Grammar ANGAMI Grammar AO Grammar APATANI Grammar BHUMIJ Grammar BROKSKAT GOJRI Grammar HMAR Grammar KARBI Grammar KOKBOROK Grammar KUVI Grammar LOTHA Grammar MAO NAGA Grammar MISH Grammar MISING Grammar MUNDARI Grammar NAGA PIDGIN Grammar PURKI Grammar SEMA Grammar Theory of Binding Grammar URALI Grammar A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA   endi ‘paddy’ empya ‘cotton’ embi ‘uncooked rice’ gukn ‘stoop’ gonci ‘dragon fly’ genji ‘banian’ tg ‘wool’ nkeplo ‘December’ igy ‘twin’ arpuho  ‘amidst’ karpya ‘unroll’ grb ‘shoulder’ arti ‘testicle’ arda ‘tomorrow’ arka ‘smile’ dorgi ‘earthworm’ grx ‘armpit’ armi ‘ripe’ tarji ‘scorpion’ arn ‘laugh’ tarsi ‘wall’ tarla ‘cup’ The cluster /ny/ is realized as palatal nasal [ñ] before central vowels. ñcu ‘lip’ ñtu ‘dragger’ ñnyo ‘honey bee’ Germinated clusters are not found in Atapani. Only the palatalised phonemes occur in word initial and medial positions. Others occur only in medial position Syllable A sequence of phonemes with one peak of sonority is treated as a syllable. There can be one or more than one syllables in a single word. Usually one vowel will function as nucleus of a syllable. The preceding consonants/semi-vowels are called the onset of the syllable and the following consonants/semi-vowels are called coda of the syllable. There are words without onset and coda. When a syllable ends with a vowel, it is called an open syllable and when it ends in a consonant, it is called a closed syllable. The syllable pattern of Apatani is exemplified in the following : Monosyllabic Words : Monosyllabic words are very common in Apatani. Open syllable : (c) v v a ‘come’ cv ma ‘no’ cv is ‘this’     Previous Next top

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