Here
“ma” and “síl”
are responses which can be regarded as minor sentences. The full response
form is
bïgi-ye-ma
He
won’t go
bu-lu
síl gi-ye
They
will go today.
(3)
Exclamatory sentence
An
exclamatory sentence sometimes combines with any sentence as a peripheral
exclamatory form, but when it occurs in isolation, it is a minor sentence.
bú-bú
‘ah, ah’
kúrkúr
‘come, come’ (for animal)
sa-sa ‘welldone’
yá-yá
‘well done’
APPENDIX
rankpkke
la sibëkke dyiNe
rankp
la(n) sibe-bi abire bini
tortoise and monkey the friend both
lnknëm
appaiyëm dkapo gika
day one to fruit to eat to went
sibe-bi buriae tale d re sankan.
monkey the tree up to climb up past
bï aednab gela sinebi
dugkanka bïygsadëm
me pankab
he fruit to eat after monkey the went away he sword to left.
rankb-bi
dadape resankan: sibekke ygsadëm
tortoise the with difficulty climbed up monkey’s sword to
langëla rankbbi keïgpe
kängela ludunai-bë le
get after tortoise downward seeing after said under the
dumsumëm tmil
tgab maml
bële
deer to standing kill otherwise under
sirabëm tmil tgabyenya?
bagëmpe
wild pig to standing kill-what under to
tdnëm dumsudem tgap
dunai dumsudkke
being to deer to killed dropping deer the off
asigde kkki rankbbi
dum-dum-k st
dum-dum-d-kke
skin the by tortoise the drum one make drum the of
ara b yiludëm ilig-daggai
in hornet to put
dumdumdëm kala sibebi lëkman ninka(n).
drum to seeing monkey the beat wished
rankb-bi lut
“abira! isin talet mant
tortoise the said friend tree above drum
btte pe mannan” sibebi
resankange la lut
great to beat monkey the group tense after said
“
manye-ne?
I beat what
rankb-bi
ludak- “abira! tlg
gampe
tortoise the said friend up more to
sibe-bi rela rela tui-pe re sanka(n)
monkey the slowly slowly peak to went up
bïd dum-dum-dëm
mandak sibebi dum-dum dëm
he then drum to beat monkey the drum to
man-su-daggai. yilude dela la bïm pe paglendak
beat self was tear after his bite fell down.
-yen?
g
-ye-n?
