Grammar and vocabulary of the Bullom language / By the Rev. Gustavus Reinhold Nyländer.

  • Nyländer, Gustavus Reinhold, -1825.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Grammar and vocabulary of the Bullom language / By the Rev. Gustavus Reinhold Nyländer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Q jJanguage, or the sentence of the speaker, either en- tirely unintelligible, or gives quite a different meaning to what the speaker intended to say, as-there are several words, only. distinguished by g: thus, bang signifies any thing that is bad ; gbang signifies to-mor- row ;—beng, a board; gbeng, glory ;—bet, a box; gbet, a ring ;—bannah, a plantain ; gbannah, the title of a chief ;—gborr, or ugborr, a herd of sheep ; borr, or uborr, a generation of people. gh, sounds as in ghost. : h, commonly sounds like h in hat, horse, &c. ; but when followed by e, 7, or v, it seems to be a mere aspiration; it sounds very much like h in hew, hewer. In the following words: hewl, four ; uhiant, a child, pronounced as if written whyant ; hvoy, a cloud : it is pronounced rather through the nose as it were: ‘h denotes the preceding vowel to be short. j. There appears to be no sound inthe Bullom Lan- guage like j or g soft, as in English: dy may supply the place of j, in some measure, in the words dy¢, to kill ; dyo, to eat; dyall, flesh, body. But it would not be advisable to write them with j, as both d and y are pronounced as if the words were written, d-yall, d-ye, d-yo. The names Jack and Jim are very com- mon among the Bulloms; but they pronounce them Yack, Yehmy. It will be, however, necessary to in- troduce the letter j in the Bullom Alphabet, on ac- count of the words or proper names which, by teach- ing them to read, will certainly occur; but as their tongues seem to be inflexible in this point, they must
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