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Example 9-46
Ma grandfada had faiv eykaz a lan hia.
Ma
my
grandfada
grandfather
had
had
faiv
five
eykaz
acres
a
of
lan
land
hia.
here
My grandfather had five acres of land here.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1980-1989
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Sortal numeral classifiers: The language has no numeral classifiers
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