Example 59-132

bikm
bik-m
pen-1sg
my pen
Comment:
This is a precious example of what may be emerging in the language: possessive suffixes. It occurred in the speech of a child. Bik is borrowed from French bic, and m is borrowed from the pronoun mbi. Bik is pronounced with a high tone and -m with mid tone.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994