Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 9-6
I da no li bway i olda dan yu.
I
3sg
da
top
no
neg
li
little
bway
boy
i
3sg
olda
older
dan
than
yu.
2sg
He is not a little boy, he is older than you.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1985
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adjective and noun: Modifying adjective precedes noun
×