Example 25-116

Thet olgamanolgaman olabat jingat na "[...]".
Thet
dem
olgaman~olgaman
red.older.woman
olabat
3pl
jing-at
sing-out
na
now
"[...]".
[...]
Those women, they call out now: "[...]"
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the use of reduplication of nouns with human reference to indicate plurality.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt