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from [http://tulquest.huma-num.fr/sites/default/files/questionnaires/137/150_NSM_CanonicalSentences_v5_05_2017.pdf 150 Canonical Sentences for Identifying Semantic Primes and the Core Lexicogrammar of any Language] == SOMEONE~WHO, SOMETHING~THING~WHAT, PEOPLE, BODY== ; 1. Who did it? : ján zèm li nɒ́ ; 2. Someone took it. I don't know who. : ján li gàm-án jò-nɒ́. mí li ɣɛ̀ŋní: ján nɒ̀ li zèm? : ján li gàm-án jò-nɒ́. mí li ɣɛ̀ŋ-íl-án jàn ip nɒ̀. ; 3. What happened? : zèm? ; 4. I did something bad. : mí li ìke. ; 5. What is this? : ní li zèm? ; 6.a. This thing is big. : ní li zùl. ; 6.b. This thing is small. : ní li lìli. ; 7. They are good people. : nɒ́ li jàn li bòn. ; 8. Many people don't know this. : ján mùt li ɣɛ̀ŋní. ; 9.a. Sometimes bad things happen to people. : tém nol ìke-ján. ; 9.b. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. : tém nol ìke e ján bòn. ; 10. The body of a man is not like the body of a woman. : mìje la síjel li ɒ́ɰsíjelmél. : an mìje na lèjis-ɒ́ɰsíjelmél. ; 11. The stomach (liver, etc.) is part of people's bodies, it is inside the body. : íns ìlo-án mòk li ìnssíjel. == PARTS, KINDS == ; 12. This thing (knife, axe etc) has two parts. : ílo nì li gùlup zǹi e ékep ə̀n. ; 13. People's bodies have many parts. : síjelján li zǹi e ílo mùt. ; 14. There are two kinds of yam (bat, bird etc.) : nòl e nási-án gìl ip Jæ̀m na ə̀n. ; 15.
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