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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ŋăH / *ŋăk
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: speak
Chinese: *ŋ(r)aʔ speak.
Tibetan: ŋag, dŋags speech, talk, words.
Burmese: ŋak speak, LB *ŋakx // *ŋax; cf. also ŋra declare, say loudly, cry.
Kachin: ŋa1 to say, speak, declare.
Comments: Cf. also OCh. 諺 *ŋran-s proverb, saying, vulgar talk, 言 *ŋran to speak, 訴 *s-ŋāk-s 'express, declare'; Tib. mŋan-pa swear. Peiros-Starostin 213; Coblin 137.
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