Example 54-45

mon bann zanfan
mon
poss.1sg
bann
pl
zanfan
child
my children
French: mes enfants
Comment:
In traditional Reunion Creole, the plural marker bann is used only with human nouns, but le is also used. On map 391 of the linguistic atlas (Carayol et al. 1984–1995) 10 out of 40 localities have bann marmay / le zanfan 'the children'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cellier 1985: 53