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Example 25-136
Wi yusdu habim
kid
la bush.
Wi
1pl
yusdu
hab
hab-im
have-
tr
kid
child
la
loc
bush.
bush
We used to have children in the bush.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the use of
kid
as the term for 'child'
.
Type:
translation in elicitation of other language
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Pequenino: A word derived from pequenino exists
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