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The
sixth syllable is close
(C)CV(C)C (C)
(C)(C)C(C)C(C)
C(C)
(C)VC
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CV
CVC C
CVC C
CVC |
lagaRda:khaRda:this |
‘speak
by gestures’ |
| CVC
C
CV CV CV CVC |
 oRu:tosalithis
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clear
the throat’ |
| CV
CVC CVC CV CC
VC |
kutiRjas
naa:sis |
‘trace
the foot prints’ |
| CCVC
CVC CCCVC CV CVC VC |
bRak han
Rgyalmobu is |
‘echo’
(lit.: the voice of the queen of the rock) |
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Seven
Syllable Words:
Seventh syllable is open
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CV C
CVC VC VC CV |
e:gana: unisigla |
‘fool’ |
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Seventh
syllable is close
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| CVC
CV CVC CV CV CVC CVC |
kankulikdapaja:sdis |
‘to
trap’ (cause the walker fall) |
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| 1.8.
Sandhi: |
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hamo
‘this’
ham ‘this’
These two phonemic forms represent a single morpheme. This is the
synchronic variation of a single morpheme. This kind of synchronic
variation in the phonemic forms is said to be Sandhi or morphophonemic's.
If the variation of morphemes occurs within a word, then it is called
internal Sandhi; it the variation of morphemes occurs within more
than one word, it is called external Sandhi. The word Sandhi means
‘placing together’
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| 1.8.1.
External Sandhi: |
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In
Brokshat word final vowel gets lost before pause as shown in the
following words:
ane la ¾ ¾ ¾® an la ‘here is’
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heme
mu ------>
hem mu
‘these men’
masa skyu: s
--------->mas skyu:
‘I see’
gota:Ra bo ------------>gota:R bo ‘go to house’
The long vowel [e:] of e:k gets lost after a vowel.
This may be seen in the following instances:
go:li + e:k ----------> go:lik ‘a cow’
mole + e:k ------------> molek ‘a girl’
bilu + e:k------------> biluk ‘a cat’
byo + e:k ------------>byok ‘a boy’
speRa + e:k -----------> speRak ‘a word’
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1.8.2.
Internal Sandhi: |
Glide is formed between vowels. If the preceding vowel is a high front
vowel, then the glide is [y] and if the preceding vowel is back vowel,
then the glide is [y] and if the preceding vowel is back vowel, then
the glide is [v]. This may be observed in the following instances. |
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bi
+ u:ns ---------> bi-y-u:s
‘(I) am going’
bi + enes ------------> bi-y-enes ‘(We) are going’
bi + a:le ---------> bi-y-a:le ‘(He) goes’
di + u:s
----------> di-y-u:s
‘(I) give’
so + a:has
---------> so-v-a:has
‘sleeping’
so + a:sto -----------> so-v-a:sto ‘slept’
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2.
MORPHOLOGY |
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2.1.
Noun:
The noun is the clause of words which is capable of taking the
case marker. The sub-classes of the noun are the substantive (or
the noun), the pronoun, and the numeral.
The nouns may be classified into two classes, which may be called
masculine and feminine on the basis of adjectives which are declined
to agree with the gender of the noun that follows. There two classes
based on gender are not natural classes based on sex. Though among
the animate nouns, the nouns referring to males belong to the masculine
class and nouns referring to males belong to the masculine class
and the nouns referring to the females belong to the feminine class,
the inanimate objects are also divided into these two classes. Thus,
the gender system is purely grammatical.
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