-qaa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "qaa"

Yup'ik

Etymology

Similar, though probably unrelated, to many interrogative markers in other languages; Compare Korean 가 (ga), 까 (kka, “interrogative particle”), Finnish -ko, -kö (“interrogative suffix”), Indonesian kah (“interrogative suffix”), Malay kah (“interrogative suffix”), Kapampangan ká (“interrogative particle”), Tagalog ga (“dialectal interrogative particle”), Marathi का (kā, “interrogative particle”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /-qa.a/, [-(q)qɑː]

Particle

-qaa

Added to the first word in a sentence, used to form polar questions.

References

Steven A. Jacobson (1995) A practical grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo language, University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 22