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Eastern Maninkakan
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Pronoun
àlé
- Third person, singular, emphatic (itself)
Ngam
Etymology
From àĺ, cognate to Sar, ultimately from Proto-Sara *àʟ́.
Pronunciation
Adverb
àlé
- do not
M-āw sà̰y ngá̰y àlé, m-āw bèmbèé.- I did not go far, I went to the field.
References
- Keegan, John (2014). The Eastern Sara Languages. Ceunca, Spain: Morkeg Books. p. 227.
- Mudiwa, Olukayode (2001). An Analysis of Proto-Sara. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Addis Ababa Books. p. 156.