Cross-language.... something

[afuna]

Trying to find an English word which sounds out like "ng+g" (not necessarily spelled that way), to prove (or maybe disprove) a point in a conversation.

I thought "finger" was close, but it turns out it's pronounced "fin+ger", rather than "fing+ger", huh.

Comments

[pauamma]

Coming in very late, but there are some words with initial ng. 2 common ones that come to mind are ngayon and ngunit. (And trying to pronounce them drives me nuts.)

[afuna]

Hmm, how are you trying to pronounce them? :-)

(I should probably not ask you to pronounce "nganga".

[pauamma]

Hmm, how are you trying to pronounce them? :-)

I think that I either insert a vowel before that isn't there, or change the ng to some kind of g-ish consonant. Neither of which feels right.

I should probably not ask you to pronounce "nganga".

Yeah, I would probably go gaga trying to. :-)

[afuna]

Hmm. It's definitely more ng than g. Remind me to pronounce it for you some tiem :)