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Example 66-123
Musba-mama, atto-yang ambε-bawa.
Musba-mama,
Musba-
voc
atto-yang
trishaw-
acc
/
def
ambε-bawa.
take-bring
Uncle Musba, bring the trishaw.
Comment:
In the Kirinda dialect, there are kinship vocative suffixes. Other dialect are as yet not investigated for this feature.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
M.T.M. Rihan, p.c.
Language:
Sri Lankan Malay
by
Peter Slomanson
cite
Datapoints:
Vocative markers: Optional vocative marker following noun
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