ngoni
See also: Ngoni
English edit
Noun edit
ngoni
- A West African stringed instrument, shaped like a guitar.
- 2007 October 21, Kelefa Sanneh, “Under the Hook, Rap and Rhythm Lie the Beats”, in New York Times[1]:
- Mr. Kouyate’s instrument is the four-stringed West African ngoni, also called a xalam […] .
See also edit
- Ngoni (instrument) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Lindu edit
Adverb edit
ngoni
Manado Malay edit
Etymology edit
From North Moluccan Malay ngoni, from Ternate ngoni.
Pronoun edit
ngoni
- you (plural)
Ternate edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ngoni (subject clitic ni, possessive prefix na, Jawi ڠوني)
Pronoun edit
ngoni (subject clitic no, possessive prefix ni, Jawi ڠوني)
Alternative forms edit
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Ternate personal pronouns
independent | subject proclitic | possessive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Informal | Formal | |||||
1st person singular | ngori | fangarem, fajaruf | to | ri | ||
2nd person singular | ngana | ngoni, jou ngoni | no | ni | ||
3rd person singular | unam, minaf | om, mof, inh | im, mif, manh | |||
1st person plural inclusive | ngone | fo | na, nga | |||
1st person plural exclusive | ngomi | fangare ngomim, fajaru ngomif, fara ngomi1 | mi | mi, mia | ||
2nd person plural | ngoni | ni | na, nia | |||
3rd person plural | anah, enanh | ih, nh, yoh, †, yanh, † | nah, ngah, manh |
- unmarked pronouns are gender non-specific
- m - masculine, f - feminine, h - human, nh - non-human
- 1 - for mixed-gender groups
- † - archaic
References edit
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh