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bit more on this: some Australian languages (e.g. Ngalakgan aka Ngalakan) have a grammaticalised verbal affix expressing sympathy for an argument coded as (indirect) object. There are also various other devices, including special 'sorry-for-the-swearing' interjections,
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I attach three relevant articles see pp. 77-78 of the 'social cognition in Dalabon', and the 'sorry for the swearing' sections of the 1992 article</div>
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As I think Maļa mentioned, Kriol (the English-lexifier creole spoken in much of northern Australia) has come up with its own marker along these lines, bobala (<poor feller), with an interesting semantic range which though it typically shows pity/compassion
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