Datapoint Bislama/Female and male animals

Crowley's (1995) dictionary of Bislama gives no indication of the relative frequency of the different options. The dictionary also has entries for dog man, dog woman possibly suggesting that this order is slightly more frequent. This would indeed be consistent with what we know is the older variant of N-N compounding, where the head N precedes the modifier, e.g. glas daeva 'diving mask', man Malo 'man/person from Malo island'.

Values

Postposed sex-denoting word Frequency: 50.0%

Example 23-180:
buluk man; buluk woman
buluk
cow
man;
man
buluk
cow
woman
woman
bull; cow

Source: Crowley 1995: 58

Confidence:
Uncertain

Preposed sex-denoting word Frequency: 50.0%

Example 23-179:
man buluk; woman buluk
man
man
buluk;
cow
woman
woman
buluk
cow
bull; cow

Source: Crowley 1995: 143

Confidence:
Uncertain