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Example 49-80
M gen
yon
zanmi ki malad.
M
1sg
gen
have
yon
indf
zanmi
friend
ki
rel
malad.
sick
I have a friend who is sick.
French:
J'ai un ami qui est malade.
Comment:
There are numerous allomorphs for the indefinite article:
on, yon, en, enn…
Cf.
Atlas linguistique d’Haïti
(Fattier 1998)
,
map and comment 1977.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fattier 1998
: vol. 2,p. 842
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite articles: Indefinite article identical to numeral ‘one’
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