Talk:Prosthesis (linguistics)
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[edit] Arka/ngarka
"Ngarka" (not ngyarka) is a language norm for Tundra Nenetses. For example, see the external link (in Nenets language) with detailed description of Tundra Nenets language. There are quite a few common words that start with "ng". "Arka" is described as a dialectal variation, in which the initial "ng" is omitted, i.e., the opposite effect. Mukadderat 16:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Quotation from [1]:
- The basic syllable structure implies that word-forms do not begin with a vowel. However, many dialects seem to contain words with an initial vowel, though usually very few of them. For instance, шmke ‘what’ is widely used instead of ngшmke. By contrast, the Western dialects, because of the loss of the initial *ng, possess a large amount of initial vowels, and thus an initial syllable structure V(C), e.g. Western arka ‘big’ ~ Central–Eastern ngarka.
Mukadderat 16:53, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
