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Language:
Belizean Creole
Parameter:
'Hear' and 'smell'
References
Escure 1983
Examples
If dey kloz op layk dat dey hav tu
smɛl
rɛŋk.
If
if
dey
they
kloz
close
op
up
layk
like
dat
that
dey
they
hav
have
tu
to
smɛl
smell
rɛŋk.
rank
If they stay closed, they must smell bad.
See
Escure 1980-1989
Yu
hia
wan li 'kilin-kilin'.
Yu
2sg
hia
hear
wan
a
li
little
'kilin-kilin'.
'kilin-kilin'
You hear a noise that sounds like 'kilin-kilin'.
See
Escure 1983
: 34
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