Example 49-91
chat sa yo
these cats
French: ces chats
- Comment:
- Diatopic variation: There are varieties of Haitian Creole in which the variant pitit la yo [child DEF PL] 'the children' is used instead of the variant pitit yo [child PL] 'the children'. It is noticeable that the form of the demonstrative (pitit sa yo) is strictly parallel.
- Type:
- naturalistic spoken
- Source:
- Fattier 1998: 844