hear

[Cumberland, Linda A]

Assiniboine(Dakotan branch of Mississippi Valley Siouan) uses nax'uN 
'hear' (where x is a voiceless velar fricative and uN is nasal u]. 
There is a word, ogaxnigha 'understand', but although it is attested by 
several speakers, in 11 years of working with speakers of the language, 
I have never heard it used in conversation. The universal choice is 
nax'uN.

Linda Cumberland

Quoting Steve Parker <steve-monica_parker at sil.org>:

> Neo-Melanesian Pidgin English (Tok Pisin), uses the verb "harim", from
> English 'hear', for both 'hear' and 'understand'.
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