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Damin in a sentence

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Damin meaning

A ceremonial register of the Australian Aboriginal Lardil language; the only language outside of Africa to use click consonants in its phonology.

Using Damin

  • The main meaning on this page is: A ceremonial register of the Australian Aboriginal Lardil language; the only language outside of Africa to use click consonants in its phonology.
  • In the example corpus, damin often appears in combinations such as: damin is.

Context around Damin

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Damin

  • In this selection, "damin" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, jong, dahalo and hopes stand out and add context to how "damin" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include clicks in damin is actually and dahalo and damin also have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "damin" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with damin

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Damin is an invented ritual language, and has nothing to do with Khoisan. (13 words)

All languages have nasal clicks, and all but Dahalo and Damin also have oral clicks. (15 words)

This convention is used in the literature on Damin, where the clicks are transcribed as m!, nh!, n!, rn! (19 words)

One of the clicks in Damin is actually an egressive click, using the tongue to compress the air in the mouth for an outward (egressive) "spurt". (26 words)

Head Boy of Lodge International School, Jong Damin hopes the team could contribute to this project by fundraising, and they were eager to visit again. (25 words)

Apart from Dahalo, Damin, and many of the Bantu languages (Yeyi and Xhosa being exceptions), 'click' languages have glottalized clicks. (20 words)

This convention is used in the literature on Damin, where the clicks are transcribed as m!, nh!, n!, rn! (19 words)

Example sentences (6)

Head Boy of Lodge International School, Jong Damin hopes the team could contribute to this project by fundraising, and they were eager to visit again.

All languages have nasal clicks, and all but Dahalo and Damin also have oral clicks.

Apart from Dahalo, Damin, and many of the Bantu languages (Yeyi and Xhosa being exceptions), 'click' languages have glottalized clicks.

Damin is an invented ritual language, and has nothing to do with Khoisan.

One of the clicks in Damin is actually an egressive click, using the tongue to compress the air in the mouth for an outward (egressive) "spurt".

This convention is used in the literature on Damin, where the clicks are transcribed as m!, nh!, n!, rn!

Common combinations with damin

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • damin is

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "damin" in a sentence?
An example: "Head Boy of Lodge International School, Jong Damin hopes the team could contribute to this project by fundraising, and they were eager to visit again." This page contains 6 example sentences with the word "damin" from authentic English texts.
What does "damin" mean?
Damin means: A ceremonial register of the Australian Aboriginal Lardil language; the only language outside of Africa to use click consonants in its phonology.
How many example sentences with "damin" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 6 example sentences with "damin", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.