ngaya

Gamilaraay

Etymology

From Proto-Central New South Wales *ngaya, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ngayu ~ *ngayi ~ *ngaya.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ŋaja/

Pronoun

ngaya

I (first person nominative singular pronoun)

See also

nganha (accusative)
ngay (genitive)

References

Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)

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