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Example 5-181
Speaker 1: Gyal mi laik di wee yu waak. – Speaker 2: Schuups!
Speaker
Speaker
1:
1:
Gyal
Girl
mi
I
laik
like
di
the
wee
way
yu
you
waak.
walk.
–
–
Speaker
Speaker
2:
2:
Schuups!
Go.away
Speaker 1: Girl, I like the way you walk. – Speaker 2: Leave me alone!
Comment:
<Schuups> is the conventional way in Creolese of representing the ingressive click, commonly referred to as 'suck-teeth'.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Para-linguistic usages of clicks: Both logical and affective meanings
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