The case of pidgin and creole languages - Linguistics
The case of pidgin and creole languages - Linguistics
The case of pidgin and creole languages - Linguistics
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A detailed gloss for a particularly spatial sentence follows:<br />
Mauritian Creole: Saken ena en but ahtere dah later pu form en<br />
Gloss: Each-one have one end buried in earth for form one<br />
Mauritian Creole: triyahg e lot but zwen ahsam lao.<br />
Gloss: triangle <strong>and</strong> other end meet together above.<br />
Free translation: One end <strong>of</strong> each bar was stuck in the ground equidistant from the other<br />
two while the tops <strong>of</strong> the bars met together a few feet above the ground.
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