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Example 11-84
I jos sii wan-wan maami.
I
3sg
jos
just
sii
see
wan-wan
one-one
maami.
mamee
He just saw a few mamee apples.
Comment:
Holm (p.c.) indicates that
wan-wan
means ‘one by one; only a few; individually’.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Holm 1978
: 297
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
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