NGOMBA VERB PARADIGM INDEX

 

There are 6 tenses, 3 future and 3 past, and 4 moods.
The materials were elicited by Steven Bird, and
tone transcriptions were done by John Bell.
There may be other transcriptions online, and you can create your own if you wish.
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future past
affirmative One Three Five One Three Five
conditional One Three Five One Three *
interrogative One Three Five One Three Five
negative One Three Five One Three Five

*There is no P5 Conditional included, as it is a periphrastic construction
in which the subject does not occur sentence-initially

Each paradigm is laid out as a table with 4 columns and 8 rows. In the first two columns,
the subject noun is varied while the object noun is fixed. In the final two columns, the
object noun is varied and the subject noun is fixed. The words used in the paradigms are
listed in the following table. Other words not listed here are auxiliaries which are part
of the tense/mood.

List of Vocabulary Used in Paradigms
NOUNS:Subjects:Objects:
H-tone singularNDO0N0MO0
H-tone pluralPELO0N0MO0SHU0
HL-tone singularMBUN0MVU
HL-tone pluralPEPUN0MO0MVU
LH-tone singularPUG0NDUM
LH-tone pluralPEPUG0PENDUM
L-tone singularFO0NA
L-tone pluralPEFO0MENA
VERBS:H-toneL-tone
 MBATTNDYU0N0TE0

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