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Juba Arabic
Etymology
From Sudanese Arabic ياتو (yātu).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
yatu
- which?
References
- Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English, 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 181
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
| ALIV
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| Brazilian standard
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| New Tribes
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Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *jatu (“to burn”).
Pronunciation
Verb
yatu
- (Caura River dialect, intransitive, patientive) to burn
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yatu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “daʔtwa-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021