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<BR>>> what language is it? E.g. in the Hissar Parya language, which reveals some features both of the North-Western NIA and Rajasthani dialects, it is <BR>normal to express given - including inalienable - possession through formal pronominal enclitics or postpositional possessive pronouns. <BR><BR>
It was a Kangri (Pahari from Himachal Pradesh) story, and while it has some aspects reminiscent of Rajasthani, I don't think this is one of them. The sentence was:<BR>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">छोट्टा</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">भ़ाऊ</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">मेरा <SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">पाणिऐं</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">च <SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">डुब्</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">बा</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">दा</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">था ।</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI"><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">choTTaa bhaauu meraa paNiai cha Dubbaa daa thaa</o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI"><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">small brother my water in drown -ing was</o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI"><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI"><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">The 1st person singular pronoun 'my' is identical to the Hindi form. In the audio recording, there's a pause after it as well, which argues that it is part of the 'small brother' phrase, rather than the 'in the water' phrase (and in any case, it wouldn't be inflected correctly to say it goes with 'in the water'.</o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI"><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">But the pragmatically neutral order for this would definitely be just like the Hindi:</o:p></SPAN></P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">मेरा <SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">छोट्टा</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">भ़ाऊ</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">पाणिऐं</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">च <SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">डुब्</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">बा</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">दा</SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI">था ।</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI"><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">meraa choTTaa bhaauu paNiai cha Dubbaa daa thaa</o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI"><SPAN lang=HI style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">my small brother water in drown -ing was</o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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Bob<BR>
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