In an episode of the British television programme An Idiot Abroad, Karl Pilkington meets the chief of a local tribe, who comments upon the Ninde language. He explains that “all the words of Ninde begin with /n/”, such as the word nimdimdip for palm tree, naho for fruit, or nuhuli for leaf. They then visit the grave of a woman who was named Nicola.
However, this general statement is actually not true. The only words of Ninde that start with /n/ are the inanimatecommon nouns of the language; the /n/ reflects an old nominal article which has been fused to the radical of these common nouns. As for the name Nicola, which is a borrowed European name, it cannot be taken as representative of the Ninde language.
External links
Materials on Ninde are included in a number of collections held by Paradisec.
ELAR collection: Ninde documentation and orthographic design project deposited by Caroline Crouch
^LINGUIST List 8.45: Bilabial trill. Linguistlist.org. Retrieved on 2010-12-08.
References
Lynch, John and Crowley, Terry. 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. Pacific Linguistics. Canberra: Australian National University.
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