Example 59-1

melenge ti lo oko amu koli, kol ni ate zo
melenge
child
ti
of
lo
3sg
oko
one
a-mu
pm-take
koli,
man
koli
man
ni
det
a-te
pm-eat
zo
person
His one child married a man; the man ate people.
Comment:
Notice that although it was the man's practice to live on human flesh, habitual aspect is not expressed here with COP.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994