Example 25-274

Yu tok gata Ngarinyman!
Yu
2sg
tok
talk
gata
com
Ngarinyman!
Ngarinyman
You talk in Ngarinyman!
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates a specific function of the comitative/instrumental preposition gota, that of marking the language spoken in.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt