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Example 36-1
Tepu nakulu no
Ngola
ka zi
kai no
kota mionga [...].
Tepu
time
nakulu
old
no
we
Ngola
Angolar
ka
hab
zi
make
kai
house
no
poss
.
1pl
kota
side
mionga
see
[...].
[...]
In the olden days, we, the Angolars, used to build our houses on the sea side [...].
French:
Autrefois, nous, les Angolars, nous construisions nos maisons au bord de la mer [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Maurer 1995
: 134
Language:
Angolar
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
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