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Example 43-40
Dentër mundu fesang fesang bong djenti bong; tudu
dos dos
omi muler.
Dentër
within
mundu
world
fesang
sort
fesang
sort
bong
good
djenti
people
bong;
good
tudu
all
dos
two
dos
two
omi
man
muler.
woman
In the world, there are all sorts of people as well as [animals]; all in pairs of males [and] females.
Comment:
The word for 'animal' is missing in the Tugu example; in its Malay translation, the word
binatang
'animal' is present.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Philippe 2011
: 36
Language:
Batavia Creole
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Datapoints:
Adnominal distributive numerals: Distributivity marked by reduplication
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