-qaa
See also: Appendix:Variations of "qaa"
Yup'ik
editEtymology
editSimilar, though probably unrelated, to many interrogative markers in other languages; Compare Korean 가 (ga), 까 (kka, “interrogative particle”), Finnish -ko, -kö (“interrogative suffix”), Indonesian kah (“interrogative suffix”), Malay kah (“interrogative suffix”), Kapampangan ká (“interrogative particle”), Tagalog ga (“dialectal interrogative particle”), Marathi का (kā, “interrogative particle”).
Pronunciation
editParticle
edit-qaa
- Added to the first word in a sentence, used to form polar questions.
References
edit- Steven A. Jacobson (1995) A practical grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo language, University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 22