nasality and negation

[Urmas.Sutrop at EKI.EE]

Dear colleagues,

in Estonian (Finno-Ugric) standard negation word is ‘ei’ without any nasal
component (this is developed from the former negation verb; 3sg). A negation
marker m-itte contains m. It is worth to mention that Estonians use quite often
nasal negation non-words, e.g. m~m~, a~, ä~, etc. in colloquial speech.

Best wishes,
Urmas Sutrop

Professor of anthropological and ethnolinguistics
University of
Tartu

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