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While normally SOV, Nyosangeyish can switch to OSV with the right verb suffix. Adjectives and adverbs come after the word they modify, but unusually for a head-initial language, adpositions are post- instead of pre-. | While normally SOV, Nyosangeyish can switch to OSV with the right verb suffix. Adjectives and adverbs come after the word they modify, but unusually for a head-initial language, adpositions are post- instead of pre-. | ||
== The Cat and the Bird == | == The Cat and the Bird == | ||
'''Maye fe céfod icégğu'm dıjun ag lejiğ nofé oyeny.'''<br> | |||
cat and bird persimmon=ACC tree ABL eat ATR want<br> | |||
''A cat and a bird both wanted to eat persimmons from a tree.''<br> | |||
'''Céfod feyefdıjun mu aweng fe icégğu mu lejiğ.'''<br> | |||
bird treetop ACC fly and persimmon ACC eat<br> | |||
''The bird flew to the top of the tree and ate all the persimmons.''<br> | |||
'''Maye fonşow hefyet fe buju mu ngıre.'''<br> | |||
cat see IPFV and anger ACC go<br> | |||
''Seeing this, the cat became angry.''<br> | |||
'''"Ngi a ngi aweng," mu tiğ ngége, "yo mu lejiğem hetıtajığ!"'''<br> | |||
if 1sg if fly ACC 3sg say 2sg ACC eat-COND instead<br> | |||
''"If I could fly," it said, "I would eat you instead!"''<br> | |||
'''Déğé-héj yişiny şoduğ dıjun-pisre'g ice.'''<br> | |||
just.then mouse large bush=ABL run<br> | |||
''Just then a large mouse darted out from a bush.''<br> | |||
'''Céfod ığuş, jél maye tiğ mu rağol déğé.'''<br> | |||
bird attack but cat 3sg ACC catch now<br> | |||
''The bird lunged for it, but the cat had already caught it.'' | |||