Igu

  1. mudu    atoli     thru-zu-za-ne

    sky        Atoli     run-?-come-CONVERB

    ‘Atoli (the spirit of tongs) came running from the sky, …’

     

  2. echa-me                     bra-la

    this-NOMINATIVE     grow-PERFECTIVE

    ‘this grows …’

Kera’a

  1. Machi-me                     pra.

    water-NOMINATIVE    good

    ‘The water is good.’

     

  2. Ini        mreya-me                   aphu.

    1PL     man-NOMINATIVE    weave

    ‘We men weave.’

     

  3. Ini Dibu-me                         Ini Mengga’a               a-we.

    Ini_Dibu-NOMINATIVE      Ini_Mengga’a              birth-NOMINALISER

    ‘Ini Dibu gave birth to Ini Mengga’a.’

Literaturverzeichnis

Culhane, Kirsten, Naomi Peck & Uta Reinöhl. 2023. The mystery of word-initial consonant loss in Kera’a. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/doi:10.31235/osf.io/zvfdw.

Peck, Naomi. 2020. Kera’a (Arunachal Pradesh, India) – Language Snapshot. Language Documentation and Description 19. 26–34.

Reinöhl, Uta. 2022. Locating Kera’a (Idu Mishmi) in Its Linguistic Neighbourhood: Evidence from Dialectology. In Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey & Toni Huber (eds.), Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya, 232–263. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004518049_010.

Reinöhl, Uta, Pachu Pulu and Usha Wallner. Submitted. A sketch grammar of Igu - The Shamanic language of the Kera’a.