| 1.
Phonology |
| 1.1.
Phonetic Segments of Mundari Speech |
| 1.1.1. List of contend
segments and their illustrative environment: Here V stands for any
vowel, while C for a particular consonant which occurs as conjunct
to the given sound and which is to be illustrated while dealing with
conjunct situations. |
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Segments
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Environments
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Example
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Remarks
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[p]
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C-V
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[arpur]
‘abundance of
food or drink’
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V-V
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[lapu?d]
‘measles’
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¹-V
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[pokota]
‘strong’
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[p·]
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¹CV-V¹
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[sup·u]
‘arm’
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¹V-VC¹
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[ip·il] ‘star’
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[p]
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V-C
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[epera ]’to fight together’
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[b]
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C-V
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[ramba a]
‘green gram’
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V-V
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[aba]
‘father’
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¹-V
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[ba]
‘flower’
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[? ]
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V-
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[sa?
kul]
‘custom of sending
away
the bride’
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[?b]
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V-C
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[ca ur]
‘splash’
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Sometimes,
pre-glot taliztion
may be replaced
by vocalic release
as bv
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V-¹
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[u?b]
‘hair’
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[t]
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C-V
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[darta]
‘fate’
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V-V
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[lutum]
‘name’
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¹-V
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[topa]
‘cremation’
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[t.]
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¹CV-V¹
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[st.a]
‘dog’
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¹V-VC¹
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[it.il]
‘fat’
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[tv]
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V-C
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[itikid]
‘art of rubbing’
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[d]
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C-V
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[huldu?b]
‘laxuriant
appearance
of
a planet’
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V-V
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[hada?]
‘a vagetable’
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¹-V
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da?]
‘water’
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[]
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V-
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[sa? a]
‘to whip witha switch’
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[?d]
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V-C
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[pu?dga]
‘fog
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Sometimes
pre-glotta
lizationmaybereplacedby
vacalic release as dv.
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V-¹
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[a?d]
‘to lose’
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[]
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C-V
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[rema]
‘a kind ofpole’
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V-V
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[kau?]
‘toe’
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¹-V
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[.]
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¹CV-V¹
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[ga.i]
‘lime-stone’
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¹V-VC¹
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[i.in]
‘habit of oustandingone who is acquiring something’
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[.]
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V-C
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[aakar]
‘to feel’
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[v]
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¹-V
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[umba]
‘tobedrawned’
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N-V
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[i ika]
‘human heel’
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[]
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V-V
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[horo] ‘man’
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Cv-V
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[bakii]
‘fence’
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V-C
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[ago]
‘flood of dirty water’
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