ELL: polyglottes

[Claire Bowern]

In Bardi you say something like:

arridil niimanangaankiid

arridil - 1st person plural inclusive
niimama- many
ngaanka - language
-iid - "expert". X-iid makes an animate noun which denotes a person who can
be characterised as having something to do with X.

You could also say

(arridil) niimana ngaanka arran
we      many    language we:speak

Claire Bowern

At 02:19 PM 04/18/01 +0200, you wrote:
> > How did you say : " We are all polyglot " in your language ?
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>in serbian:svi smo poliglote.
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>iva cukic
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