yanya

/ˈjaɲa/

gloss “this, these”

Location · deixisNyungkul dialect

this, these (demonstrative pronoun; Nyungkul absolutive form, referring to animate or inanimate, singular or plural by context)

this, these

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A Grammar of the Kuku Yalanji Language of North Queensland

This entry was added from Elisabeth Patz’s reference grammar and was not present in the original dictionary dataset.

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Elisabeth Patz, Pacific Linguistics 527, Australian National University, 2002.

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Attested in Patz §3.7, Table 3.12 / Table 3.13 (absolutive form of the demonstrative pronoun 'this/these'); also Text 51 line 72, exx.(123),(361),(429),(431),(625),(649). Not in the source dictionary.
Nyungkul counterpart of Yalanji yanyu; suppletive inflected bases use yala- (e.g. ERG yalabu, DAT yalayngka).
Added from the reference grammar (Patz); not present in the original community dictionary.