‘added to the sentence
final position to form interrogatives’
hi
‘(i) used as a numeral
‘three’ and occurs with classifiers’
(ii) added to the
verb to indicate the involvement of the entire set’
h
‘(i) used as third
person pronoun (unfamiliar,invisible),
(ii) added with nouns
as a determiner’he ‘added with the numeral to change it to
an adjective’
he
‘added with the numeral
to change it to an adjective’
ho
‘used as a conjoining
marker’
Folk
Tales
ayu
ho anunyi abanyi
one younger brother-conj. elder brother-conj.
dtola
live-p.t.dur.
monyi alo karmya
mi more ho
they-two day adverb acc. forest loc.
ila pta
mentola alo lonyilohe
go-dur. bird kill-p.t.dur. day some
hepa iline. abas
h
pta
ako
like this go-p.t. elder brother det. bird one
xeta balgmatola
anu h
alo
? get-neg.p.t.dur. younger brother det. day
karmya
mi pita abuje balglne
adv. acc. bird many get-p.t.
roe
mónyi ka anabanyi
mó mi tahpa
once they-two gen. parents he
acc. ask-for
mlyine.
alo loye anu h
aba
do-become-p.t. day one younger
brother det. elder brother
an
